Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and an Angel

ca. 1505 (Renaissance)

50.5 cm 66 cm 1.3 cm

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Though this painting might initially seem like a typical image of the Madonna and Child, it is quite dense in symbolism. The Christ Child, gingerly supported by his mother, stands atop a piece of pink marble carved with a pagan story, suggesting the Christian triumph over the...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 52, as Filippino Lippi]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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