Contarini Madonna is formed by a soft landscape, with hills and a city with towers. Contarini Madonna The Contarini Madonna (Italian: "Madonna Contarini") is an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating from c. 1475-1480 now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. The painting shows the Madonna holding Jesus who stands on a parapet in the foreground. Below is a cartouche with the artist's signature, " IOANNES BELLINVS". The blessing Child has similar features to that in the San Giobbe Altarpiece, dating to the same decade or a few years later. His icon-like staring appearance recalls the Byzantine painting,
Holly Hunter Hunter is unable to hear with her left ear due to a childhood case of the mumps. The condition sometimes leads to complications at work. Some scenes have to be altered from the script for her to use her right ear. Hunter was married to Janusz Kamiński, cinematographer of "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" from 1995 until 2001. Hunter has been in a relationship with British actor Gordon MacDonald since 2001. The couple met in San Jose Repertory Theatre's production of playwright Marina Carr's "By the Bog of Cats", in which she played a woman abandoned by her lover