Madonna Of The Eucharist (Botticelli)
''Virgin and Child with an Angel '' also known as ''Our Lady of the Eucharist'' (Italian: ''Madonna dell'Eucarestia'') is a painting in tempera on wood panel by Sandro Botticelli, executed in c. 1470. It is now held by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, having been acquired from House of Chigi, Prince Chigi in 1899. The painting measures and is one of a series of paintings of the Madonna (art), Madonna produced by Botticelli between 1465 and 1470. It shows influences from Filippo Lippi's ''Madonna and Child (Lippi), Virgin and Child with Two Angels'' of c. 1465 in the Uffizi. The Virgin Mary is shown in a three-quarter view, with the Christ Child held on her lap. A smiling angel, wearing a crown of myrtaceae, myrtle, offers them a bowl containing twelve ears of wheat and grapes. The child raises a hand in benediction, and Mary holds one of the ears of corn. The scene may be set in a walled garden or ''hortus conclusus'', symbolic of Mary's virginit ...
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Botticelli - Madone De L'Eucharistie
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli (, ), was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period. In addition to the mythological subjects for which he is best known today, Botticelli painted a wide range of religious subjects (including dozens of renditions of the ''Madonna and Child'', many in the round tondo (art), tondo shape) and also some portraits. His best-known works are ''The Birth of Venus'' and ''Primavera (painting), Primavera'', both in the Uffizi in Florence, which holds many of Botticelli’s w ...
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