Why it matters
The Virgin nurses the Christ Child while an angel looks on. In the 17th century, the leading Roman cardinals competed to own it.
Did you know?
- It dates from around 1524.
- It was first recorded in the Aldobrandini collection in Rome in 1603.
- Van Dyck and Pietro da Cortona probably admired it there.
Based on the Wikipedia article Nursing Madonna with an Angel (CC BY-SA 4.0).
