{"product_id":"giotto-madonna-child-art-mug","title":"Giotto di Bondone: Madonna and Child (c. 1310)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiotto di Bondone: Madonna and Child\u003c\/em\u003e (c. 1310–1315)\u003cbr\u003e\nTempera on poplar panel, 85.4 × 61.8 cm\u003cbr\u003e\nSamuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePainted in the same years as the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, this is the moment when Western painting broke with Byzantine convention: figures began to occupy space, faces began to hold emotion. The work passed through the collection of New York banker Henry Goldman before entering the Samuel H. Kress Collection — a trajectory that traces how Renaissance devotional painting migrated from Florentine altars to American museums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rose in Mary's hand is not decoration. It is a theological argument: she is identified with the Church as the bride of Christ. The Christ Child's gesture simultaneously signals divine mission and human attachment. This is not the most famous Giotto — it is the one that rewards looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is also available on fine porcelain — a slimmer, lighter vessel in a different material register. Both dishwasher safe and microwave safe, printed locally in the USA, UK or Germany — not shipped from overseas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tazzarte","offers":[{"title":"Fine Porcelain — 10 oz","offer_id":50957461586251,"sku":"0fb589cb-a69b-4a03-af88-f9e99ef2a63e","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"White Ceramic — 11 oz","offer_id":50957461553483,"sku":"80035aa5-8181-419e-9d63-8f447ad0d0ee","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0816\/8475\/8859\/files\/GiottoMug.png?v=1748417095","url":"https:\/\/tazzarte.com\/products\/giotto-madonna-child-art-mug","provider":"Tazzarte","version":"1.0","type":"link"}