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Description: | The subject of this devotional image was often represented by Guido Reni in the 1620s. Reni's depiction of the Immaculate Conception is a simplified version of his early images of the Assumption of the Virgin. He followed the canonical iconography inspired by the vision of Saint John the Evangelist in Patmos, in which the Virgin is identified with the 'woman robed with the sun, beneath her feet the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars'. Reni's type of female saints were particularly popular during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when this painting was probably produced. | Subjects: | religion (Virgin) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8970... | Go to resource |
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