The Virgin and Child with Saint Andrew and Saint Peter

Cima da Conegliano's Virgin and Child with Saint Andrew and Saint Peter, painted around 1510 and now in the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, is a late sacra conversazione combining the two most prominent apostles with the Madonna. The work demonstrates Cima's consistent devotional vision in his later years, maintaining the serene, luminous quality that had characterized his art for two decades even as Venetian painting was being transformed by Giorgione and Titian.

Cima's late technique shows the smooth, refined surface and crystalline light of his established style, with the balanced apostle figures flanking the Madonna in the symmetrical arrangement characteristic of his sacre conversazioni.