Material, technology: oil, walnut wood Size: 22 x 21 cm Description: The Virgin lifts the cover of the Child, so the picture belongs to the Madonna del Velo iconographic type. The raising of the cover symbolizes the recognition of the Savour in the infant, while sleeping alludes to the death on the cross. The closest stylistic analogies of the picture are among the works of Bartolomeo Ramenghi, who was born in a small town of Romagna, Bagnacavallo, but moved to Bologna at a young age. A master of genuine conservative taste, he adopted Raphael’s legacy alloyed with the formal idiom of Bolognese quattrocento instead of spreading mannerism. | |