COLONIAL SCHOOL, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY Madonna and Child inscribed ‘IN GREMIO MATRIS SEDET / SAPIENTIA PATRIS’ (on the scroll); and further inscribed ‘IL VERO BITRATO DELLA SACRATISIMA VERGINE MARIA MIRACOLOSA IN VALLE DE VIGEZZO IN RE’ (along the bottom edge) oil on canvas 29 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (75 x 59 cm.) The present lot refers to a famous fresco depicting the Nursing Madonna in the Santuario della Madonna del Sangue, in Re, Val Vigezzo, Italy. In 1494, a stone hit the fresco and it miraculously started to bleed. Therefore this painting depicts the Virgin with drops of blood on her forehead.
COLONIAL SCHOOL, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY Madonna and Child inscribed ‘IN GREMIO MATRIS SEDET / SAPIENTIA PATRIS’ (on the scroll); and further inscribed ‘IL VERO BITRATO DELLA SACRATISIMA VERGINE MARIA MIRACOLOSA IN VALLE DE VIGEZZO IN RE’ (along the bottom edge) oil on canvas 29 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (75 x 59 cm.) The present lot refers to a famous fresco depicting the Nursing Madonna in the Santuario della Madonna del Sangue, in Re, Val Vigezzo, Italy. In 1494, a stone hit the fresco and it miraculously started to bleed. Therefore this painting depicts the Virgin with drops of blood on her forehead.
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