Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini.
Another of Bellini’s strikingly individualistic faces for religious subjects, and the superb painting ability that caused Durer to write of Bellini after a visit to Venice: “He is very old, and still he is the best painter of them all.”
See my post on Giovanni Bellini.
In the Metropolitan Museum. Click “Fullscreen” and then Zoom or download.
Link: Madonna and Child, Giovanni Bellini
Bellini Baby; IOANNES BELLINUS was a redhead himself.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Giovanni_Bellini_Felt%C3%A9telezett%C3%96narck%C3%A9peKJ.jpg
Maybe not the greatest artist, but definitly my favorite . Not just the way he handles color,subtle and direct , but the way he treats the space around the forms – you can feel the air around them!