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The Virgin and Child with a Shoot of Olive
Andrea Previtaliabout 1515
The National Gallery, London
London, United Kingdom
The Virgin bends a branch (probably an olive branch symbolic of peace) towards Jesus who touches one of its leaves. Similar in style to a painting of 1510 once in Dresden, this Virgin and Child was perhaps painted in Bergamo before the painter's style was altered by the influence of Lotto.
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- Title: The Virgin and Child with a Shoot of Olive
- Creator: Andrea Previtali
- Date Created: about 1515
- Physical Dimensions: 50.2 x 66.5 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on wood
- School: Italian (Bergamo)
- More Info: Explore the National Gallery’s paintings online
- Inventory number: NG2500
- Artist Dates: about 1480 - 1528
- Artist Biography: Andrea Previtali came from Bergamo, and was a pupil of Giovanni Bellini in Venice, from whom he borrowed various designs. He returned to Bergamo in about 1511, where he came under the influence of Lotto.
- Acquisition Credit: Salting Bequest, 1910
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