Madonna of the Orange Tree

Cima da Conegliano's Madonna of the Orange Tree, painted around 1496, is one of his most celebrated works, now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. The distinctive orange tree behind the Virgin became the painting's identifying feature and carries symbolic significance—the orange was associated with paradise and the Garden of Eden. The work demonstrates Cima's ability to transform natural details into meaningful sacred symbols within his luminous landscape settings.

Cima renders the orange tree and surrounding landscape with botanical precision and atmospheric clarity, using his signature crystalline light to unify the sacred figures with the natural setting in a harmonious devotional composition.