 It utilizes what may be the most realistic proportions for human beings in Jacobello's entire body of work, even though it was produced during a phase when his artworks were inspired with Byzantine sensibilities of early fourteenth-century Venetian artists.The depiction of baby Jesus in this work is uncharacteristically realistic and accurately proportioned to how a small infant would look and be posed against its mother.Though the current condition of "Virgin and Child" is poor, the colors have been preserved fairly well, and retain vibrancy.