Minneapolis Institute of Art
Madonna and Child in the Clouds
Federico BarocciLinkedCulture matchlcp-94aacc6e6050
- Date
- c. 1581
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 111859
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
In its efforts to fight the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s, the Roman Catholic Church commissioned artists to produce tender, emotional images that might make its theology more approachable. Federico Barocci was a leading painter of such works. He made just a few prints, but they proved enormously popular and influential. In this freely and delicately drawn etching, he depicts the Virgin Mary as the Queen of Heaven enthroned on a cloud. Her son, Jesus, naked and vulnerable, uses his right hand to bless us and his left to hold a rose whose thorns foreshadow the crown of thorns he is forced to wear prior to his crucifixion. Italy, Europe
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- Credit line
- Gift of John Crosby
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