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Description: | This canvas depicts the Holy Family with the young John the Baptist and Saint Cecilia. The infant sits on his mother's lap holding lilies in his left hand, a traditional symbol of the Virgin's purity. Here the lilies are also the attribute of Saint Cecilia, who dedicated herself to Christ; the ring he offers her alludes to a mystic marriage, a scene usually associated with Saint Catherine. Neither the date nor the artist are known; this painting appears to be a pastiche of several works by Raphael and other sixteenth-century artists and it was probably produced in the early nineteenth century. | Subjects: | St Cecilia John the Baptist) figure; religion (Holy Family | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Raphael (Italian painter and draftsman, 1483-1520) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8632... | Go to resource |
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