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Dying Cleopatra
Eternal Father with a little angel
The Cook
San Sebastian
Madonna and Child between Saints John the Baptist and Magdalene
Lake landscape
The living room of the Virtues of the Patries
Allegory of Autumn
The chariot of the sun with the seasons
Nativity
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January - Ice skaters
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Madonna della Pappa

Gerard David

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Red Palace

Red Palace

Via Garibaldi, 18, Genoa

Closed today: open tomorrow at 09:00

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Moving to Bruges from the northern Netherlands in 1484, at the end of the 15th century Gerard David inherited the role of undisputed protagonist of the local pictorial scene from Memling, painting both monumental works for the most important religious and secular institutions and private portraits and devotional paintings sold. partly on the free market. At least seven different versions depicting the Madonna della pappa can be traced back to this last genre - among which the panel kept at the Aurora Trust in New York, considered the oldest and highest pictorial quality example -, which share the same cardboard or model, substantially recognizable in all replicas, made with greater or lesser participation of the workshop. In the composition, datable to 1510-1515, influences of Lombard imprint have been recognized, probably derived from examples of the Madonna and Child dating back to a Leonardo prototype of which there are several variants made by Italian and Nordic artists, from Bernardino de 'Conti to the Lombard Ambrogio Benzone or Ambrosius Benson, who in 1519 entered David's workshop in Bruges. In the interpretation of this subject, set in a domestic and intimate interior, the Flemish components of the representation seem to prevail both in the landscape that opens on the horizon and in the minute description of the objects in the foreground: the bread, the bowl with the milk, the knife and the apple which seem to allude respectively to a precise message of Eucharistic content; in this way everyday things also acquire a different meaning and the bread and milk of the baby food become a symbol of the Eucharist of Christ while the knife prefigures his Passion.
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Title: Madonna della Pappa

Author: Gerard David

Date: 1510-1515

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Displayed in: Red Palace

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