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European Painting and Sculpture
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Adoration of the Christ Child
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Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi)
Adoration of the Christ Child
c. 1500
Diameter, 47 1/2 in. (120.8 cm.)
Oil on panel
BF.1974.2
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Sandro Botticelli oversaw an active workshop, producing hundreds of paintings, especially devotional images of the Virgin and Child, over the course of his career. Very few of Botticelli´s paintings are signed or dated, and it is often difficult to determine his authorship. This painting belongs to his late period, which is particularly enigmatic. Some scholars attribute this work entirely to Botticelli, but it may also have been executed in part by his assistants. The round painting, or tondo, shows the Virgin Mary adoring the infant Jesus, while Saint Joseph sleeps. On the right are the devoted shepherds, and in the background, on the left, the Holy Family flees into Egypt.
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
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