# Madonna of Humility [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BASTIANI, Lazzaro]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 80 x 55 cm ## Commentary Madonna of Humility c. 1470 Tempera on panel, 80 x 55 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan In this composition the theme of the Madonna of Humility is enriched with several iconagraphic motifs ranging from angels crowning the Virgin to God the Father, who appears with the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, alluding to the Holy Trinity. The angels in the foreground play the lute and the lira da braccio, while those in the background blow trumpets and recorders. The painting shows the influence of Antonio Vivarini, whose workshop Bastiani spent his formative years, and of Giovanni Bellini. ## Related artworks - [Communion of St Jerome]() - [Funeral of St Jerome]() - [Madonna and Child in Painted Frame]() - [Pentecost]() - [St Jerome Bringing the Lion to the Convent]() - [St Jerome in the Desert]() - [St Veneranda Enthroned]() - [The Death of St Jerome]() - [The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista \(detail\)]() - [The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista \(detail\)]() - [The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista]() - [View of the Piazzetta]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()