immacolata

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Virgin Mary portrait

  • Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
    In Madonna: Madonna on her own and after the 17th century

    The immacolata, which in the 17th century emphasized her Immaculate Conception, or perpetual freedom from original sin, shows her as a young girl descending from the heavens, supported by a crescent moon and crowned by stars. The Madonna of the rosary, which until the 16th century…

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