Italy, iii. 561; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Lavice, 52.
MADONNA DEL BACINO. See Holy
Family del Bacino.
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Madonna del Baldacchino, Raphael, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
MADONNA DEL BALDACCHINO (of the Canopy), Raphael, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 10 ft. × 6 ft. The Virgin, enthroned, with Jesus on her knees; at left, SS. Augustine and James; at right, SS. Peter and Bernard; in front, two boy angels singing, and above, two others raising the curtains of the canopy over the throne. Begun in 1508, for chapel of Dei family in S. Spirito, Florence, but left incomplete when Raphael went to Rome. After Raphael's death bought by Baldassare Turini for the Cathedral of Pescia, whence sometimes called Madonna di Pescia; sold in 1697 to Ferdinando de' Medici, son of Grand Duke Cosmo III., who placed it in the Pitti. A copy, made at the time by Pietro Dandini, is still in the cathedral at Pescia. The original was carried to Paris in 1796, and given by Napoleon to the Museum of Brussels, but restored to Italy in 1815. Much injured by cleaning and by the retouching of Agostino Cassana. Studies in the Louvre, at Chatsworth, and in the Lille Collection. Engraved by Lorenzini; Nicolet (1802); G. Morghen; Biondi; and Landon.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 328; C. & C., Raphael, i. 369; Passavant, ii. 90; Müntz, 196; Gruyer, Vierges de Raphael, iii. 477; Landon, Musée, iv. Pl. 33; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iv. Pl. 90; Lübke, Raphael, 35, 101.
MADONNA DEL BARACCANO
(of the Shed), attributed to Lippo
Dalmasio, church of same name, in
Bologna. The Virgin and Child enthroned
within an archway; angels
hold candelabra at sides, and, lower
down, a male and female look up to
Virgin's face. Repainted in 1472
by Francesco Cossa, who added the
figures below, the male being supposed
to be a portrait of Giovanni
Bentivoglio, and the female of Maria
Vinciguerra. The church was established
in 1403, in honor of the
miracles performed by the picture,
which was painted on a bastion of
the city walls.—C. & C., N. Italy, i.
524; Gualandi, Guida, 139.
MADONNA OF THE BASKET.
See Madonna della Cesta.
MADONNA OF THE BAS-RELIEF,
attributed to Leonardo da
Vinci, Collection of Lord Monson, Gatton
Park, England. The Virgin, seated, holding
Jesus, who reaches forward to greet St.
John; Joseph and Zacharias standing behind,
looking at Jesus; the bas-relief is seen
in the lower corner of the picture, under St.
John. Similar in composition to the Holy
Family of the Hermitage. Probably painted
in Milan about 1490. Reduced copy in Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge; copy in Melzi
Collection, Milan. Waagen attributes this
picture to Marco d'Oggione, Passavant to
