Maria mit Kind

Bartolomeo di Giovanni painted this Madonna and Child around 1500 in Florence. Bartolomeo was a productive workshop painter who collaborated with Ghirlandaio and Botticelli, producing predella panels and devotional images. His competent, if somewhat formulaic, Madonnas served the enormous demand for devotional images in Florentine households. The tempera medium required careful preparation on a gessoed panel and a disciplined layering technique that produced precise, durable surfaces suited to the intricate detail expected of devotional painting.

Tempera on panel with standard Florentine workshop technique and warm coloring. The Madonna and Child follow established compositional types reproduced efficiently in the collaborative workshop system.