Today I'm visiting the National Gallery in Scotland and found this beauty. It's an Andrea del Verrocchio, called the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child.
If you look beyond the classic theme of the Virgin with the child, you can the detailed architectural prospective in the back. Remember, this is the Renaissance, birth of the one point prospective drawing back in 1400s, so you have to imagine this is a very trendy subject indeed.
That reminded me back when living in Florence, when visiting the The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors the fresco by Masaccio in the church of Santa Maria Novella, one of Masaccio's last major commissions and is often cited as one of the first monumental Renaissance paintings to utilize linear prospective
Another interesting point is that this painting belonged to John Ruskin, English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.
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