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Description: | The painting is a copy of Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch (1505, Uffizi Gallery, Florence). Conservation and paint analysis shows that it is a nineteenth-century copy, possibly painted in northern Europe. The picture contains the symbolic objects often depicted in pictures of the Virgin and Child. These may appear to be no more than ordinary items usually found in a still life but they do in fact reveal a Christian symbolic sytem. In paintings of the Madonna and child these symbols are normally seen in the hand of the child; here it is a goldfinch. The reason for its association with the Christ Child was derived from the legend that it gained its red spot at the moment when it flew down over the head of Christ on the road to Calvary and, as it drew a thorn from the Saviour's brow, was splashed with the drop of His blood. | Subjects: | religion (Madonna and Child) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Raphael (Italian painter and draftsman, 1483-1520) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8613... | Go to resource |
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