The ''Madonna with Sleeping Child'' is a glue-tempera on canvas painting measuring 43 cm by 32 cm. It was painted around 1465-1470 by Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Tatjana Pauli, ''Mantegna'', serie ''Art Book'', Leonardo Arte, Milano 2001. Intended for private devotion, it dispenses with the two figures' usual haloes in favour of a more intimate, simple and tender approach. Mantegna draws on Donatello's motif of Mary's face touching the child, whilst they are both enveloped in a brocade mantle against a black background. There is a dialogue about this painting in the novel "Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken. Abenteuer eines Wanderers" by the German writer Manfred Hausmann de .

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{{Andrea Mantegna 1470 paintings Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Andrea Mantegna Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin