Madonna della Loggia (Madonna and Child)

Sandro Botticelli

Contemporary-Art.org
Keywords: MadonnadellaLoggiaMadonnaChild

Work Overview

Madonna della Loggia (Madonna and Child)
Sandro Botticelli
Original Title: Madonna della Loggia
Alternative name: Madonna della Loggia (Botticelli)
Date: 1467
Style: Early Renaissance
Genre: religious painting
Media: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: 50 x 72 cm
Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy


The Madonna della Loggia is a painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, dating to c. 1467. A tempera on panel work, it is located in the Uffizi, Florence, Italy.


The theme of the Madonna and Child embracing, which was extremely widespread in the sculpture and painting of the Quattrocento, is derived from a Byzantine pictorial type. What is new here is the motif of the loggia, which still makes a rather flat impression behind the figures, although the even fall of the light is attempting to integrate it properly into the scene.


In this and a series of similar paintings, the young artist was trying out the repertoire of motifs associated with the theme of the Madonna and Child.