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A woman kneels, angled to our left, and tips her face down toward a naked baby propped on a pillow against a pile of hay in a shed-like structure in this round painting.

The Virgin Adoring the Child

Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1446–1510)

Date
1480/1490
Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1952.2.4. See the museum’s record
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Print
24 × 24 in, filling the paper
Center
67¼ in (171 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel
6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width
44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height
Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.
The Virgin Adoring the Child: a 24 × 24 in print hung above a mantel, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
24 × 24 in square print (61 × 61 cm), centered 67¼ in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

Standard paper sizes that keep this painting’s proportions, the frames that fit them, and how sharp each one prints.

Paper Filling the paper Printed whole Frame Frame with a 2 in mat Frame with a 3 in mat Sharpness
12 × 12 in no trim 12 × 12 in 12 × 12 in ready-made 16 × 16 in ready-made 18 × 18 in custom 1892 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in no trim 16 × 16 in 16 × 16 in ready-made 20 × 20 in ready-made 22 × 22 in custom 1419 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in no trim 20 × 20 in 20 × 20 in ready-made 24 × 24 in ready-made 26 × 26 in custom 1135 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in no trim 24 × 24 in 24 × 24 in ready-made 28 × 28 in custom 30 × 30 in custom 946 dpi, crisp up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.

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