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Virgin and Child with a Swallow

1453 · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

religious

This accomplished Virgin and Child by Francesco Pesellino, dating from the mid-1450s, was one of the most reproduced paintings in fifteenth-century Florence. It was a pivotal work in an unusual and prolific copying enterprise. From the 1450s to the mid-1490s, the composition appeared in thirty-eight panel paintings executed by a workshop close to Pesellino and Filippo Lippi.

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Virgin and Child with a Swallow