Detail of the Virgin and Child with Angel and Saint John by Bellano in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, July 2011

Virgin and Child with angel and Saint John

about 1470s–1480s

Bartolomeo Bellano, Italian (Padua), 1437–1496/7 Italian (Padua)


Dimensions: 57.5 x 68 cm (22 5/8 x 26 3/4 in.)

Accession Number: 17.1469a

Medium or Technique: Stone, limestone


Marble relief, signed and dated on back "1461 OPVS BARTOLOMEVS BELANI" The date is likely a later addition.

Provenance: Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw, through Quincy Adams Shaw Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)

Credit Line: Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/virgin-and-child-with-angel-and-saint-john-58903