# Madonna and Child with the Infant St John \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red chalk, 290 x 204 mm ## Commentary This sheet was created in a time when Michelangelo occupied himself intensively with the Madonna and Child subject. The drawing reveals the artist's penchant for subtlety and grace: the figure unfolds in sweeping lines in a silhouette-like manner, with the long, curved folds of her garment creating the impression, as it were, of a blossoming plant. Compositions of this kind were an important source of inspiration for Mannerist artists. On the verso of the sheet Michelangelo briefly sketched a sitting Mother of God in frontal view. ## Related artworks - [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)]() - [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud]() - [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)]() - [Allegorical figure]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()