The Madonna of the Carnation, a.k.a. Madonna with vase or Madonna with child, is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci created around 1478-1480 (Renaissance). It is permanently displayed at the Alte Pinakothek gallery in Munich, Germany since 1889 after it was in private ownership.

The central (and centered) motif is young Virgin Mary with her naked Baby Jesus on her lap. Mary is seated and wears precious clothes and jewellery. With her left hand, she is holding a carnation (interpreted as a healing symbol). The faces are put into light while all other objects are darker, f.e. the carnation is covered by a shadow. The child is looking up, the mother is looking down — there is no eye contact. The setting of the portrait is a room with two windows on each side of the figures.

Originally this painting was thought to have been created by Andrea del Verrocchio but subsequent art historians agree that it is Leonardo's work.

Madonna and Child was a common motif in Christian art during the Middle Ages. This painting is the only work by Leonardo which is permanently on display in Germany.

The Carnation are a Swedish rock band from Gothenburg.

The Carnation was formed in 1998 as The Anxious by Christian Bergman (guitar/vocals) and Eric Obo (vocals/guitar). They signed a record contract with the German label Sounds of Subterrania in 2003. They made their debut with the single New Sensation and an album entitled Gothenburg Rifle Association the following year. After achieving cult status in Germany and Japan, The Carnation recorded their follow-up Human Universals during the winter of 2006.

In the beginning, The Carnation was heavily influenced by the British indie scene (Ride, Blur, The Verve etc.), as well as 1960s mod bands and 1970s mod revival bands, especially The Jam. After the fast and aggressive punk rock and New Wave music of their debut, the band has tried to create a sound based upon the use of slide guitar, synthesisers, dance grooves and politically-orientated lyrics.

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo da ˈvintʃi]  pronunciation (help·info); April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.