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St. John Baptist
Judith and Holofernes
Madonna with child
San Sebastiano cured by the angels
Madonna of the straw
Salome with the head of the Baptist
The elegant snack
Corsini throne
Venus reaches dying Adonis
Dispute of Jesus among the doctors
The torture of Prometheus
Denial of Peter
Madonna of the milk
Triptych with Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost
Allegory of the four elements - Air, Water, Earth, Fire
The hare
Polyptych with Madonna and Child with Saints
The tribute of the currency
Adoration of the shepherds

Madonna of the milk

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

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Corsini Gallery

Corsini Gallery

Via della Lungara, 10 , Rome

Open now from 10:00 to 18:00

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«I am in love with the Virgin by Murillo of the Corsini Gallery. His head haunts me and his eyes continue to pass me like two dancing lanterns ». Thus, the famous writer Gustave Flaubert described his reaction to the painting during his stay in Rome in 1851. The Gypsy Madonna, as it was called in the city guides, was, in fact, one of the most admired paintings in the nineteenth century. of the Corsini collection precisely for the expressive power of the Virgin and Child made by the Spanish painter. The work was performed around 1675 in Seville and is one of the best examples of Murillo's ability to render religious subjects in terms of "family narration" and compositional simplicity. The Corsini painting is, in fact, built around the two figures of the Virgin and Child, rendered with those almost "common" features that gave the work its nineteenth-century nickname, concentrating the greatest expressiveness in the faces and looks. The focal point of the work therefore becomes the eyes that stare intensely at the viewer, almost as if he had interrupted the moment of breastfeeding, to which the clothes just moved away from Mary's breast allude, according to a rhetorical strategy that, after the Council of Trento, tended to make this iconographic typology less explicit.
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Title: Madonna of the milk

Author: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Date: 1675 ca.

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Corsini Gallery

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