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Solly Madonna

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Year
  
1500–1504

Artist
  
Created
  
1500–1504

Period
  
Medium
  
Media
  
Oil paint

Genre
  
Christian art

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Dimensions
  
52 cm × 38 cm (20 in × 15 in)

Similar
  
Raphael artwork, High Renaissance artwork, Oil paintings

The Solly Madonna by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael was painted somewhere between 1500 and 1504.

An early work, it clearly shows the influence of Raphael's teacher Perugino. Two motifs in this work would recur in later Madonnas by Raphael. The virgin Mary is reading a book, as in the Madonna and Child in the Norton Simon Museum, the Connestabile Madonna, the Madonna Colonna and the Madonna del cardellino. As in that last painting a small bird, a goldfinch, is part of the scene.

The painting is located in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. It is called the Solly Madonna because it was owned by the British banker and art collector Edward Solly (1776–1848).

References

Solly Madonna Wikipedia


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