Nursing Madonna with an Angel

Nursing Madonna with an Angel is an oil on panel painting by Correggio, painted around 1524 and now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.[1] It measures 68.5 by 87 cm and belongs to the Nursing Madonna or 'Madonna Lactans' genre.

Nursing Madonna with an Angel
ArtistAntonio da Correggio
Yearc.1524
Typeoil paint on panel
Dimensions69 cm × 57 cm (27 in × 22 in)
LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest

History

The painting's style places it around the same time as the commission of paintings for the Del Bono Chapel in San Giovanni Evangelista abbey church, that is at the start of the 1530s. Nothing more is known about who commissioned it or when and the first documentary evidence for it is a 1603 inventory of the Aldobrandini collection in Rome, where it was probably admired by Federico Barocci and later by the young Antony van Dyck and Pietro da Cortona. It was praised by father Ottonelli in his Trattato della Pittura e della Scultura, uso et abuso loro as a model to explain how a religious subject could succeed unlike a secular one. According to Ottonelli, the main Roman cardinals of the 17th century competed to possess the Nursing Madonna. There is an engraving of it[2] and a drawing of it by Lelio Orsi.[3]

References
  1. (in Italian) Giuseppe Adani, Correggio pittore universale, Silvana Editoriale, Correggio 2007. ISBN 9788836609772
  2. srl, Netribe. "Lelio Orsi, Madonna col Bambino e i Santi Andrea e Giuda, XVI sec. - Correggio ART HOME". www.correggioarthome.it.
  3. srl, Netribe. "Anonimo, Madonna del latte, da Correggio, XVI sec. - Correggio ART HOME". www.correggioarthome.it.
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