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Description: | This is a copy of La Zingarella by Correggio in the Capodimonte, Naples. The traditional title is owed to the Madonna being attired as a gypsy girl (zingarella), her hair is wrapped in a scarf about her head, she wears a white shirt, blue skirts and sandals. She is depicted sitting on the ground with flowers about her, and the infant in her lap, recalling the traditional iconography of the Madonna of Humility. Above are ghostly figures of angels, and to her left the head of a white rabbit. | Subjects: | religion (Madonna and Child angel); animal (rabbit) Madonna of Humility | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Correggio (Italian painter, ca. 1489-1534) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8353... | Go to resource |
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