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Description: | Sassoferrato, named after the town where he was born in the Italian region of the Marches, worked in Rome, where he made a great success painting sweetly beautiful Madonnas. With his studio assistants, he would keep a stock of various types for sale to pilgrims. This copy is very close to a type of praying Virgin known as 'Mater Amabilis' (Lovely Mother), of which there are many versions, including examples in the Prado and the Hermitage. This copy, possibly by an eighteenth-century imitator, most closely resembles a version in the convent of St Claire in Sassoferrato's own town. The type derives ultimately from the Madonna of the Pear by the German Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). | Subjects: | religion (Madonna) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Sassoferrato (Italian painter, 1609-1685) Æ After Previously attributed to school of Sassoferrato (Italian painter, 1609-1685) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8671... | Go to resource |
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