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The Virgin And Child With Saint Joseph And A Child Angel – Filippino Lippi

The Virgin is seated holding the Child on her knee, Saint Joseph is at the right, and a child angel at the left. Two diminutive, diaphanous cherubs hold a veil back of the Virgin’s head. In the background are half-ruined arches through the openings of which is a landscape of strangely formed rocks and distant hills.

The picture belongs among the later productions of the artist, its date being about 1500. I t was for many years in the collection of Madame de Couriss at Dresden.

  • When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art. Marc Chagall
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