"I can see a very deep sense of compassion, a mother's desire to protect her child, which she may only be able to do for a short while."
Curator Alison Manges Nogueira on "Madonna and Child" by Giovanni Bellini.
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What the hands can tell us in Bellini’s “Madonna and Child”
"I can see a very deep sense of compassion, a mother's desire to protect her child, which she may only be able to do for a short while."
Alison Manges Nogueira
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Alison Manges Nogueira
Associate Curator, Robert Lehman Collection
Associate Curator, Robert Lehman Collection
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Giovanni Bellini
ca. 1470