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Date : 1505
Sizes : 1.49 m x 2.1 m
Material : Oil on poplar
Acquisition : Purchase (1885)
| The Ansidei Madonna
Item 16 on 18
Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Perugia (Italy)
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Raphael painted this altarpiece for the chapel of the Ansidei family in the church of San Fiorenzo in Perugia. Responding to the challenge of its restricted setting, Raphael was inspired to produce one of the most imposing and resolved altarpieces of his early career.
The Virgin is flanked by Nicolas of Bari and John the Baptist, name saints of the patron and his son. The Baptist gazes up at his slender crystal cross and points towards Christ, foreseeing his passion.
Inscribed on frieze: .salve.mater.christi [Hail Mother of Christ]; on the Madonna's hem: mdv.
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