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Description: | This painting is one of many copies of Raphael's Madonna del divino amore (Virgin of Divine Love), now at the Museo di Capodimonte. Although the draughtsmanship is not of high quality the composition remains faithful to the original. The Christ Child plays the central role, sitting on the Virgin's knee He blesses the infant John the Baptist who kneels before Him. The latter's mother, St Elizabeth, sits behind. Possibly painted in the eighteenth century, the work may have been purchased by a traveller on the Grand Tour keen to have a memento of his or her visit to Naples. | Subjects: | religion | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Raphael (Italian painter and draftsman, 1483-1520) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8499... | Go to resource |
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