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Madonna and Child with Angels, St. Peter, St. John The Baptist, St. Paul and St. Francis: The Story of the founding of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome
Painted by Stefano di Giovanni (Sassetta) ca. 1430-2. Displayed in the Uffici Gallery. The iconography is inspired by the founding of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, which was built on the site of a miraculous fall of snow on August of 358 AD.
Details
- Instance of
- painting series, polyptych, painting
- Inception
- 1430
- Location
- Uffizi Gallery
- Creator
- Sassetta
- Genre
- religious art
- Main subject
- Madonna and Child
- Depicts
- Christ Child, boy, Mary, woman
- Religion
- Christianity
- collection
- Uffizi Gallery, Contini Bonacossi collection
- copyright status
- public domain
- height
- 240 cm
- inventory number
- Contini Bonacossi no. 1
- width
- 216 cm
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