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Madonna And Child With Saints Tempera On Wood Vittore Crivelli 1440 - 1502 Italian Painter Renaissance Period San Severino Marche (MC) Pinacoteca Comunale

 





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In this immense gotich frame is narrated thelife of many saints.

At the centre, we see the Madonna with her loved son Jesus Christ, they are thinking about their unhappy future.

In almost paintings of Vittore and Carlo Crivelli there are many fruits and flowers.

The apple represents the original sin.

The red carnation represents marital love, the cucumber the resurrection. The rosebud represents virginity, while the open one represents the virgin's motherhood, and the glass with water represents the virgin's purity.

Saint Severinus holds a model of the city of San Severino.

Saint John the Baptist is the saint with the scroll and long hair.

Saint Francis is the saint with the stigmata.

Saint Mary Magdalene is the saint with the jar of ointments to perfume the dying body of Christ.

Saint Jerome has a red hat and a model of a church.

Saint Bernardine holds a book.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria holds the palm of martyrdom and a crown.

In the upper tier is the Pietà; on the left is the Madonna in a dark dress.

Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians, holds a book and the palm of martyrdom.

Saint Helena is the saint with the red book.

Saint Lucy is the saint with the tray with eyes.

Saint Barbara holds a model of a fortification.

Saint Ursula holds the green book, Saint Bridget the white book.

Saint Stephen is dressed in blue and holds a book.

Saint Bonaventure holds the blue book.

Saint Anthony holds the open book.

Saint Lawrence holds the gridiron and the book.

The central rectangle depicts the Last Supper.

The predella depicts Saint Agatha and Saint Clare with the cross.


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