Madonna And Child With An Angel

Sandro Botticelli

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Work Overview

Madonna and Child with an Angel
Artist Sandro Botticelli
Year 1465–1467
Medium Tempera on panel
Dimensions 87 cm × 60 cm (34 in × 24 in)
Location Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence


The Madonna and Child with an Angel is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, c. 1465-1467. It is housed in Spedale degli Innocenti of Florence.


The painting, one of Botticelli's earliest, reveals Botticelli's close artistic relationship with his teacher, Filippo Lippi, and is modelled on the latter's The Virgin and Child with Two Angels.[1] With the realistic depiction of his live infant models, Botticelli's Madonna may be the earliest known depiction of the neurological Babinski reflex.