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Madonna and Child with Saints  1520

by Girolamo dai Libri

The saints (left to right) are Catherine of Alexandria, Leonard, Augustine, and Apollonia. [br] Painted in about 1520 for the Augustinian church of San Leonardo nel Monte outside Verona, the picture was described at length by the sixteenth-century biographer Giorgio Vasari, who especially admired the landscape and enormous laurel tree. While the Madonna and Child reflect ...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art