Then, there is Martini’s “Madonna and Child.” Completed in 1326, three decades after Duccio’s painting of the same subject, this painting is “Renaissance-looking” in execution — and could be ...

By the 1520s, Renaissance artists like Michelangelo ... of chalk and ink drawings Parmigianino made before painting The Madonna and Child With Saints, “allowing us all to partake vicariously ...

In religious or mythical art, it was sometimes idealized as divine. “Madonna and Child” (pictured top), painted in the 15th ...