# Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and a Saint [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLINI, Giovanni]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on panel, 54 x 76 cm ## Commentary The work was certainly executed before 1504, since Previtali repeats the figure of the Baptist in one of his dated paintings \(in the National Gallery, London\). It is one of the artist's loftiest and most beautiful Sacred Conversations, on the one hand embodying the still 15th century idea of a separation between the figures and the landscape behind \(the communion of the two would be achieved with the Madonna of the Meadow some years later\), though at the same time characterized by a landscape that is laid out in the realization of a unitary naturalistic vision with limpid atmospheric values. ## Related artworks - [Agony in the Garden \(detail\)]() - [Agony in the Garden]() - [Angel Announcing \(detail\)]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Barbarigo Altarpiece]() - [Blessing Christ]() - [Bust of a Man]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()