Madonna and Child with Saints (Annibale Carracci, 1590)

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Madonna and Child with Saints (1590–1592)

Madonna and Child with Saints is a 1590-1592 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. [1]

The painting was made for the church of the now deconsecrated Franciscan Monastery of Santi Ludovico e Alessio, located on Via del Pratello, in Bologna. It depicts the Virgin above seated on a cloud in glory with her infant Jesus, while below gather, from left to right, Saints Clare of Assisi, Louis IX of France, Francis of Assisi, a young John the Baptist, Alexius of Rome, and Catherine of Alexandria.

References

  1. I migliori dipinti della Reale Pinacoteca di Bologna, by Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri; Published by Nicola Zanichelli, Bologna, 1919; table 36