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The Manchester Madonna
c. 1494 · Egg tempera on wood · The National Gallery, London
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The book is the one thing Our Lady will not give Him. She holds it open and away, and the Christ Child reaches across her lap to take it. The National Gallery suggests it lies open at Isaiah's prophecy of the suffering servant, which foretells the Crucifixion, and that she seems not to want Him to learn His destiny. Beside Him the young Baptist, in his skins, steadies Him with a hand. Michelangelo painted it about 1494 and left it unfinished: the Gallery notes that her cloak keeps its black modelling, never given its coats of blue, and that the angels at the left got no further than the greenish underpaint that flesh was to be painted over. On the right two angels bend over a scroll. The only colour those two at the left ever had was the colour meant to vanish.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, Michelangelo, 'The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels' ("The Manchester Madonna"), NG809. · James Hall, 'Michelangelo's Manchester Madonna and its Influence on Granacci and Raphael', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 162, June 2020