Madonna of the milk in glory (Q56417684)

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genre: religious art (Q2864737)
artist: Luca Signorelli (Q7031)
collection: Pinacoteca di Brera (Q150066)
location: Pinacoteca di Brera (Q150066)
country of origin: Italy (Q38)
material used: tempera (Q175166) panel (Q106857709)
part of: Standard of the Flagellation (Q3973083)
depicts: Christ Child (Q942467) Virgin Mary (Q345)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: http://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collezione-online/opere/madonna-of-the-milk/

information from the Pinacoteca di Brera catalog

description: The picture is one the two sides of the processional standard executed for the confraternity of the Raccomandati at Santa Maria del Mercato in Fabriano, which arrived in Brera, already separated, after the Napoleonic abolitions in 1811. The iconographic choices reflect precise instructions from the clients, who carried out charitable activities on the behalf of abandoned children – whence the image of the

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