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Description: | The Virgin is shown seated with the child on her knee and holding a small book in her right hand. Behind her is an angel playing music, to the right are standing St Elizabeth and the infant St John the Baptist, who is on the point of pronouncing his prophecy of Christ's death. The picture is a version of a composition by Andrea del Sarto in the National Gallery, London (NG 17). Andrea del Sarto was, together with Fra Bartolomeo, the most important painter working in Florence at the time when Raphael and Michelangelo were active in Rome. | Subjects: | St John) figure; religion (Virgin and Child St Elizabeth | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Sarto, Andrea del (Italian painter, 1486-1530) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8760... | Go to resource |
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