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Source Description
This composition reproduces a famous painting of the Virgin and Child by Raphael (1483-1520) known as the Madonna of the Fish (now in the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain), which was widely known from engravings made after it. As described in the biblical Book of Tobit, the young Tobias, assisted by the archangel Raphael, cured his father Tobit's blindness with the gallbladder of a fish (hence the fish in his right hand).
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
19343
label
Devotional Plaque with the ""Madonna of the Fish""
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
19343
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Devotional Plaque with the ""Madonna of the Fish""
description
This composition reproduces a famous painting of the Virgin and Child by Raphael (1483-1520) known as the Madonna of the Fish (now in the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain), which was widely known from engravings made after it. As described in the biblical Book of Tobit, the young Tobias, assisted by the archangel Raphael, cured his father Tobit's blindness with the gallbladder of a fish (hence the fish in his right hand).
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1520-1580 (Renaissance)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Metal
plaquettes
plaques
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
10.3
height
8
depth
0.7
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 1/16 × W: 3 1/8 × D: 1/4 in. (10.3 × 8 × 0.7 cm)
Source extras
med
gilded bronze
creator_ids
2912
33562
collection_ids
REN
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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