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{{Short description|Painting by Pinturicchio}}
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{{Infobox artwork
| image_file= Pinturicchio,_madonna_col_bambino_scrivente,_1494-98,_61x41,6_cm,_philadelphia,_museum_of_art.jpg
| image_size= 250px
| title=Madonna with Writing Child
| artist=[[Pinturicchio]]
| year=c. 1494-1498
| medium=Oil on panel
| height_metric=61
| width_metric=41.6
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| city=Philadelphia
| museum=Philadelphia Museum of Art
}}
The '''''Madonna with the Christ Child Writing''''' is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master [[Pinturicchio]], painted around 1494-1498 and housed in the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], in the [[United States]].
The painting is derived from the ''[[Madonna of Peace (Pinturicchio)|Madonna of Peace]]'' (c. 1490), a simplification  for a less acculturated commissioner, perhaps a private family. The Virgin sits on a kind of cask, and is offering a book to the Child, who writes on it. The garments of the Child are perhaps inspired by the [[Late Antique and medieval mosaic in Italy|late Byzantine mosaics]] seen by Pinturicchio in Rome.
In the background is a small depiction of the [[Flight into Egypt]] and two symmetrical trees, one which is a palm, a symbol of martyrdom.
==Sources==
*{{cite book|first=Cristina |last=Acidini  |authorlink=Cristina Acidini |chapter= Pintoricchio|title= Pittori del Rinascimento|publisher=Scala|location=Florence |year=2004|isbn=88-8117-099-X}}
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[[Category:1490s paintings]]
[[Category:Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art]]
[[Category:Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Pinturicchio]]
[[Category:Paintings of the Flight into Egypt]]
[[Category:Books in art]]