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Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ43884365 ↗
Source-derived summary

Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist may refer to:

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, (Leonardo), 1470s

Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Botticelli, Cleveland), c. 1490

Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Botticelli, São Paulo), c. 1490–1500

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Bellini), 1490–1495

Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Perugino), 1497

Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Correggio, Chicago), 1513–1514

Madonna with Child with Young John the Baptist (Cranach), 1514

Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Correggio, Madrid), 1518

Virgin and Child Enthroned with the Young John the Baptist (Granacci), 1519

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Pontormo), c. 1530

Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and Saint Barbara (Daniele da Volterra), 1548

See also

Virgin of the Rocks (Leonardo da Vinci), 1483–1486 and 1495–1508

Manchester Madonna (Michelangelo), c. 1497

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist (Leonardo da Vinci), c. 1499–1500 or c. 1506–1508

Pitti Tondo (Michelangelo), c. 1503–1505

Taddei Tondo (Michelangelo), c.

Editorial summary

“Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Madonna, Child and Infant can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1490, 1500, 1495, 1497—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Madonna, Child and Infant.
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“Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Madonna, Child and Infant provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43884365. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1490, 1500, 1495 and 1497.

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This entry incorporates text from “Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.