The Madonna and Child with Two Angels is a painting by the Italian Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 master Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance...

, dating to c. 1468-1469. It is housed in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

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This works was once attributed to Filippino Lippi

Filippino Lippi

Filippino Lippi was an Italian painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy.-Biography:...

, master of Botticelli. The typology of the faces and other details induce to date the work to the same period of the Fortitude

Fortitude (Botticelli)

The Fortitude is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished in 1470. It is housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi, in Florence. Fortitude is the first recorded work by Botticelli....

and the other juvenile Madonnas of the Italian painter. The composition is similar to Verrocchio's Madonna of the Milk

Madonna of the Milk

The Madonna of the Milk is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Verrocchio, dating from circa 1467-1469. It is housed in the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom.-Description:...

, dating from the late 1460s.

External links

• Museum website