Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels  1550

This accomplished studio production, after Bernardino Luini’s celebrated altarpiece in the Basilica of San Magno in Legnano (near Milan), was destined for a church altar. The Christ Child is depicted here holding a crystal sphere, which identified him to Renaissance audiences as lux mundi, the light of the world. [br] In Renaissance Italy, celebrated altarpieces were repl...