In Verona, Rivera called “magnificent” Bonsignori’s
Madonna
, steeped in Mantegna’s spirit. In Rivera’s sketch,
the infant Christ, sterner than in Bonsignori’s painting, lies
forlornly on the slablike cube of cubism on the esthetic rack
of scientific perspective.
Francesco Bonsignori,
La Madonna con il Bambino,
1481
,
Museo del Castelvecchio, Verona
