Madonna and Child with Angels

1757 (Baroque)

46.5 cm 80.7 cm

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A drapery has been pulled back to reveal the Virgin Mary standing inside a chapel, tenderly holding her infant son. In this sophisticated combination of high and low relief, the actual light in the room creates shaded drapery folds. The illusionism of the relief (as in the leg...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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