Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Red Madonnas

Rogier van der Weyden
Madonna & Child
ca. 1435-38
Prado

Red protects itself. 
No colour is as territorial. 
It stakes a claim, 
is on the alert against the spectrum. 

 Derek Jarman, Chroma (1994)

Jan Provost
Madonna & Child
ca. 1495-1500
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francesco Granacci
Madonna & Child
ca. 1520
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bachiacca
Madonna & Child
1520s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Titian
Madonna & Child with St. Dorothy & St. George
1518
Prado

Netherlandish Painter
Madonna & Child in a Niche
ca. 1500
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hans Memling
Madonna & Child with Angels
1480s
Prado

Andrea del Sarto
Madonna & Child with St. Matthew & an Angel
1522
Prado

Jan Gossaert
Madonna & Child
ca. 1527
Prado

Luca Signorelli
Madonna & Child
ca. 1505-07
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina
Madonna & Child with Saints
ca. 1525-32
Prado

Bernard van Orley
Madonna & Child
1515-20
Prado