UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active c. 1500 in Ferrara)

Virgin with the Christ Child and the Infant St John

c. 1500
Tempera on wood, diameter 66 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

The significance of this painting lies in the fact that it is very close to Michelangelo's early unfinished picture, called the Manchester Madonna, in both the painting technique and the facial type of the Madonna.