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Courtney Martin
I'm Courtney Martin, and this is the Owsley moment. Brought to you by the David Owsley Museum of Art, the Ball State School of Art and IPR.

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Courtney Martin
In the David Owsley Museum of Art's Medieval and Renaissance Gallery, you will find an Italian painting of a beautiful woman holding a sweet and chubby baby on her lap. This is a Renaissance era depiction of the Madonna and Child, and it is quite different from earlier medieval paintings that feature the two figures. Most medieval Madonna and Child paintings incorporate a lot of gold leaf, and they often indicate the holiness of saints, angels, Mary and Jesus by placing golden halos stamped with decorative patterns behind the figures heads.

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Courtney Martin
This work, however, encircles the Virgin Mary's head with a thin, elegant line of gold that is delicate and rather subtle. DOMA’s Madonna and Child is noteworthy for the skillfully painted, billowing blue and yellow garment that Mary wears and the nearly translucent fabric that covers her head and wraps around Jesus's body. This painting is attributed to Lorenzo de Credi, which means that it was most likely painted by the master.

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Lorenzo was a magnificent painter and trained under Andrea del Verrocchio, the same artist who taught Leonardo da Vinci. Lorenzo and Leonardo influenced one another and younger artists as well.

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Credit
We would like to thank Ball State student Leah Gabbard for their research. Find more information and listen to Past Moments online at Indiana Public Radio dot org slash Owsley Moment. And to learn more about the David Owsley museum of Art, visit BSU Edu slash DOMA.