Madonna and Child with St Anne.
 Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610

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Title:Madonna and Child with St Anne
Notes:A short essay on the artistic and spiritual meaning of this artwork is available from The Visual Commentary on Scripture, https://thevcs.org/crushing-serpent/rejected-masterpiece.
Date:1606
Artist:Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610
Building:Galleria Borghese
Object/Function:Painting
City/Town:Rome
Country:Italy

Scripture:Genesis 3:8-15
Person as Subject:Mary, the mother of Jesus (Biblical figure)
Anne (the mother of Mary, apocryphal)
Lectionary links:BProp05
General Subject:Visual Commentary on Scripture
Serpent

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Attribution:Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610. Madonna and Child with St Anne, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58445 [retrieved April 27, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CaravaggioSerpent.jpg.
Record Number:58445 Last Updated: 2021-08-27 07:14:47 Record Created: 2021-02-17 14:54:06
Institution:Vanderbilt University Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition