Benois Madonna
Leonardo da Vinci · 15th century
The story
The Benois Madonna, otherwise known as the Madonna and Child with Flowers, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. One of two Madonnas begun by Leonardo in October 1478, it was completed c. 1478–1480; the other was the Madonna of the Carnation, now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
- Artist
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Date
- 15th century
- Collection
- Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Movement
- Early Renaissance
- Medium
- oil paint, panel, transferred on canvas
- Size
- 49.5 × 33 cm
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