Cartão Madonna of the Book by Botticelli Religious

The Madonna of the Book is a soft and elegant painting by Botticelli in which Mary and the Child are seated by a window in the corner of a room. She holds a Book of Hours, the Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, prayer books for laymen common in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. The Christ Child is gazing at his mother while she is absorbed in reading the book. The hands of both mother and son are positioned similarly, with the right hands open as in a gesture of blessing, and left hands closed.