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The Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the Meadow) is a 1505 painting of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child by Giovanni Bellini now in the National Gallery in London. Originally painted as oil and egg tempera on wood it was transferred to canvas in 1949 with damage in places.It presents a medieval iconography of the Virgin of humility seated before a full and shining rural panorama with both the devotional aspect and the landscape aspect given equal prominence.
