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Provenance:
Private collection, Milan (Italy)
Notes:
The composition of this painting, used in numerous works of the period, includes two different levels. The Madonna with Child, depicted within a halo of light surrounded by angels, in the upper part and a group of saints above the clouds in the lower one.This work is presumably a preparatory canvas for a larger composition and maybe destined for a private chapel. This painting reveal the influence of the two neapolitan painters: Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena.
The saints are, from the left: the Archangel Michael (with a decorated armor), Catherine of Alexandria (with her traditional attributed of the torture wheel), Apollonia (with the pincer of her martyrdom) and John the Evangelist, who has the Tetramorph eagle).
The painting, originally arched (that is to say, curved in the upper part, where the dove of the Holy Spirit was portrayed) shows the Virgin with the Child Jesus and angels on the clouds and below Sts Catherine, Nicholas, Peter, Anthony, Francis and Sebastian in prayer.
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