My two favorite Marys...
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| This fresco in the church in Spello almost made me weep. Never had I seen Mary look so sad. There was something about her holding her grown son, so lovingly, that evoked incredibly strong emotions within me. Perugino painted Pietà San Giovanni Evanglista, e la Maddalena in 1521, one of his very last works. |
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| This is the Mary I find to be the most beautiful I've ever seen (and after being in Italy as long as we have, I've seen a large number of The Madonna). This one by Bernardino di Betto (Pinturicchio, a paid assistant to Perugino) is here in Spoleto and was painted in 1497. |
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