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Giovanni Bellini's Madonna of the Meadow - Coggle Diagram
Giovanni Bellini's Madonna of the Meadow
where it is exposed
The painting is exhibited in the National Gallery in London
in what period was it painted?
This is a Renaissance painting in the 16th
who is the artist
The artist of the painting is Giovanni Bellini
Painting Analysis
in the foreground
the artist places the Madonna in the foreground because it is the primary subject and the child
in the background
in the background there is a significant amount of landscape, which frames the madonna, the buildings, we can some animals, the trees, the clouds, the plowed field.
shapes present in the painting
geometric shapes
rectangle
The buildings
circle
The Virgin Mary and the Christ Child and the clouds
organic shapes
the animals, the clouds, and grass, and fields, and mountains
lines present in the painting
why is there a repetition of lines and shapes?
we have this echoing of forms, that helps to unify the composition.
perpendicular in the buildings
There are horizontal lines, You see a band in the foreground of greenery,
then there's a band of pebbles,
then there's a band of tilled farmland,
and even the clouds create horizontal bands in the sky.
colors that have been used
the sky that is closest to us, it has deep, rich blues.
And as the sky moves back in space, towards the horizon, it becomes paler.
This is a technique that's meant to replicate the natural phenomena of looking at a great distance,
looking through more atmosphere.
How light and shadow areas are created
The white in the shawl that she wears around her head, and also in the clouds.
So Mary is connected with the heavens.
Color is in someways a function of light,
The light from the sun seems to be coming from the left, maybe a little bit forward from the figures.
the clouds illuminated from above, there in shadow below, similarly with the Virgin Mary,
The shadow is always in accordance with the source of that light.
texture used in the painting
composition of the painting
We see a female figure, she fills a third of the frame.
the drapery of the Madonna spreads out, across the bottom length of the painting.
the composition has a pyramidal shape
The pyramid shape contains the Madonna and Child, creating an intimacy
composition of the bodies
the inclination of the head of the Virgin Mary, corresponds to the angle of the Christ Child's head.
the pictorial space
the pictorial space is defined by atmospheric and linear perspective.
linear prospective
The diagonal line that forms the slope of her right shoulder corresponds to the diagonal line
of her forearm, and the diagonal line of the child's body.
atmospheric and linear perspective, we also notice a little bit of linear perspective
He is creating an illusion of three-dimensional form
and an illusion of space on this flat surface.
The lines orthogonals
The orthogonal lines are the diagonal lines that appear to recede into the distance, that lead our eye back into space and they meet at a vanishing point