Virgin and Child with Angel & 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