Madonna and Child in front of a landscape with mountains in the distance, signed and dated IOANNES BELLINUS MDX, in the Brera Galley in Milan. Ruskin comments on the painting at Works, 12.285.
Giovanni Bellini c.1430-1516
Madonna and Child 1510
Oil on canvas, 85x118cm
Further Comments: On the web page given, the work is listed as c.1468, however, according to Robertson and other sources, the canvas was signed IOANNES/BELLINVS/MDX, MDX being 1510ad.
Collection: Brera Gallery, Milan
For a reproduction of this artistic work, please consult: Robertson, Giles, Giovanni Bellini, (Oxford University Press, 1968), pl.107 or alternatively www.abcgallery.com/B/bellini/bellini65.html