Description: Ancient painting oil on canvas depicting Madonna and Child with golden and carved wooden frame.
Mary is represented according to the classic iconography, while he holds Jesus in his arms.
Jesus and the Madonna places both in the foreground, hold a lily in hand:
In his Vallis Liliorum, the German mystical Tommaso da Kempis cites the Canticle of Canticles: "I am the flower and the lily of the valid ones"; "This is the word with which Christ turns to the Holy Church in general, and more especially to each pitiful soul. Christ is in fact the beautiful groom of the Catholic Church [...], the flower of all the virtues, the lily of the validations. [...] Who therefore wants to serve Christ and pleasure to the heavenly groom, get to undress of his vices, to collect the lilies of virtue".
Jacopone da Todi, in The cry of the Madonna de la Passione del Son Jesù Cristo, makes Mary say: "O Son, son, son! / Son, Amoroso Giglio, / Son, who gives the advice / to the corner of my cramped?".
"If the combination of roses and lilies in religious depictions often underline the mystical bond between mother and son", writes Piccolo Paci, "where the presence of the Iris is emphasized, perhaps associated with another flower, such as Aquilegia for example, we want to highlight the sovereignty and painful and necessary fate of the Savior".
To give depth to the entire composition is the open window behind the figures.
The splendid workmanship and the refined color, evidently of the highest level, suggest the attribution to an author of great talent operating in Lombardy in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Conditions: Excellent condition.
Measures: 75x85cm.
Origin: Lombardy XVIII century.
Document: certificate of authenticity.
Assistance: we are at your disposal for further clarifications or photographic details
Shipping: throughout Italy Europe and the rest of the world at very low prices in maximum safety and traceable. The shipment will be agreed privately and will not be high cost.
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