Madonna and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist

1480-1489 (Renaissance)

46.3 cm 64.2 cm 1 cm

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Half-length images of the Madonna and Child enjoyed great popularity in the domestic interiors of Renaissance Italy. This example makes especially clear that, in addition to their decorative function, these images could serve as the focus for daily prayer. The Christ Child sta...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 405, as Niccolò Rondinelli]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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