Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Augustine | |
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Artist | Perugino |
Year | 1494 |
Medium | tempera on canvas |
Location | Sant'Agostino church, Cremona |
Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Augustine is a c.1494 painting by Perugino of the Madonna and Child enthroned between John the Apostle and Augustine of Hippo. It is in the church of Sant'Agostino in Cremona. It was commissioned in 1493 by the rich Roncadelli family, and the following year he painted it at his Florence studio before shipping it to Cremona. It is signed and dated on the throne Petrus Perusinus pinxit MCCCCLXXXXIIII (Peter of Perugia painted [this] 1494).
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