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Description: | This curious but charming picture, called A Fine Family Group when it hung on Sir William Holburne's staircase, seems to be a kind of patchwork. The two children in the foreground, elegant in their early seventeenth-century fashions, are by a different hand from the Madonna-like central figure, the child on her lap and the two putti to either side. One putto holds a helmet, into which he plunges a torch: the extinguished torch suggests the end of a marriage, while the helmet is associated with war. The right-hand putto's pomegranate is a symbol of resurrection. It is possible that the two lower children are portraits painted on top of an existing Madonna and child. | Subjects: | allegory (Charity; five senses; marriage) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Schedoni, Bartolomeo (Italian painter, ca.1578-1615) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8669... | Go to resource |
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