Salting Madonna

Madonna with Child (Salting Madonna)
ArtistAntonello da Messina
Yearc. 1460s
TypeVarious techniques on wood
Dimensions43.2 cm × 34.3 cm (17.0 in × 13.5 in)
LocationNational Gallery, London

The Madonna with Child (Salting Madonna) is a painting attributed on basis of style[1] to the early Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina,[2] depicting the Madona holding the doll-like Child and wearing an ornate golden crown, held by angels over her head. It is housed in the National Gallery, London. The name Salting, which is also applied to a Madonna by Robert Campin, denotes George Salting, the collector who donated it to the gallery in 1910.

  1. ^ "Possibly by Antonello da Messina"
  2. ^ The attribution to Antonello was made by Claude Phillips in "The Salting collection II: the Italian pictures", The Burlington Magazine, vol 17 (1910) p. 6.