St. Nicholas presents Students to Virgin and Child Size:24" x 36" We challenge you to find

We challenge you to find a more beautiful painting depicting this scene

imbuing the subject matter with a fervent spirituality that transcends mere representation

and with another light chain which hangs from the stern

in the last several centuries

This is one of a series of paintings in the Basilica Maria Ausiliatrice  (Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians) of the Glorious Dreams of St

St. Nicholas presents Students to Virgin and Child Size:24" x 36" We challenge you to findThis oil was painted by Il Moretto and is located in the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Brescia, located along Corso Martiri della Libert. The painting depicts the Madonna with the Child Jesus on her lap seated on a high pedestal from which falls a drape, a widespread compositional element in the shovels of Moretto and here, and only here in all her artistic production, seen foreshortened rather than frontally as in all other cases. At his