Mary with Child

Garofalo painted this Virgin and Child around 1520, one of many devotional Madonnas produced by the leading painter of Ferrara. Such intimate devotional panels served the private devotion of Ferrarese aristocratic and bourgeois households. The painting is in the Bavarian State Painting Collections Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship The work is now in the collection of Bavarian State Painting Coll

The devotional panel displays Garofalo's warm Ferrarese palette and the gentle, Raphaelesque figure types that made his Madonnas appealing to private collectors.