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Keywords: Defendente Ferrari - The Holy Family with Angels - Walters 37711.jpg Enthroned as Queen of Heaven Mary holds her son who turns with an affectionate gesture to embrace Saint Joseph while angels play music Mary's husband is pictured as an old man who needs to use glasses to read The inscription on the scroll below tells us that Mary was both mother and virgin and Joseph's old age testifies to the Christian miracle of the virgin birth The painting was probably the central part of a polyptych an altarpiece consisting of several panels Rather than looking to ancient art as a model as so many of his Italian contemporaries did Defendente Ferrari considered northern European painting with its close attention to naturalistic detail to be a proper source for an engaging religious art Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 289 417 ca 1520 Renaissance oil and gold leaf on panel Painted surface H 57 7/8 x W 28 3/8 x D excluding cradle 3/8 in 147 x 72 x 1 cm accession number 37 711 18355 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 90 as manner of Filippo Lippi Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Transcription In scroll at bottom PARTVS ET INTEGRITAS DISCORDES TEMPORE LVNGO VIRGINIS IN GREMIO FOEDERA PACIS HABENT; Translation Childbirth and chastity long time discordant have a bond of peace in the lap of the Virgin place of origin Piedmont Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Defendente Ferrari Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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