MADONNA OF THE CANOPY. See Madonna del Baldacchino.
MADONNA DEL CAPPUCCINO, Fra
Bartolommeo (?), Galerie Abel, Paris; round,
4 ft. diameter. Virgin and Child, St. Francis
kneeling between angels and the young
Baptist giving fruits to the Saviour. Said
to have been begun by Fra Bartolommeo
and finished by Raphael; but Passavant
says Raphael had nothing to do with it.
Belonged to collection of Cardinal Bonzi,
who took it to France in 1671.—Marchese,
ii. 47; Passavant, Raphael, ii. 413; C. & C.,
Italy, iii. 477.
MADONNA DELLA CARAFFA (of the
Bottle), attributed to Leonardo da Vinci,
Palazzo Borghese, Rome. So called because
a bottle containing flowers is one of its accessories.
Painted in Florence about 1472;
belonged to Clement VII., who greatly prized
it. D'Argenville speaks of it as in the Vatican
in 1762. It is probably by Lorenzo di
Credi.—Heaton, 281; Rigollot, Hist. des
Arts, etc., i. 264; Clement, 341; Richter,
Leonardo, 8.
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Madonna del Cardellino, Raphael, Uffizi, Florence.
MADONNA DEL CARDELLINO (of the Goldfinch), Raphael, Tribune of the Uffizi, Florence; wood, H. 3 ft. 1 in. × 2 ft. 5 in.; figures full-length, under life-size. The Virgin, seated in a meadow, holding a book, looking at infant St. John, who is offering a goldfinch to Jesus; in distance the city of Florence. Painted in 1506 as a wedding present for Lorenzo Nasi of Florence. In 1547, when the Casa Nasi was crushed by a landslip from Monte S. Giorgio, the picture was broken into pieces, which have been cleverly joined. Copies in Geneva Museum, in Consiglio di Stato at Florence, and in possession of Mr. Verity in London, but none by Raphael. Engraved by R. Morghen (1814); Martinet; P. Nocchi; A. Krüger (1830); J. Pavon; Reipenhausen.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 322; Passavant, i. 34; Müntz, 180; C. & C., Raphael, i. 256; Gruyer, Vierges de Raphael, iii. 146; Molini, Gal. di Firenze, i. 121; Perkins, 73; Lübke, Raphael, 34, 96; Rosini, iv. 48.
MADONNA OF THE CARTHUSIANS,
Antonio da Murano and Bartolomeo Vivarini,
Bologna Gallery; wood, tempera. In centre,
the Virgin enthroned adoring Jesus asleep
in her lap; on one side, in a niche, a bishop
with book and crozier; on the other, SS.
Jerome, John Baptist, and Nicholas of Bari;
upper course, centre, Christ between angels;
in niches, SS. Peter, Gregory, Augustine (?),
and Paul, in half-length. Painted in Venice
in 1450, by order of Pope Nicholas V., to
commemorate the services of Cardinal Albergati.
One of the most tasteful combinations
of architectural carving and panel
painting of its period in N. Italy. The figures
show the influence of the Paduan school
as affected by Donatello.—C. & C., N. Italy,
i. 30; Rosini, Pl. 61.
MADONNA DELLA CASA D' ALBA
(of the Alva Family), Raphael, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; wood, round, 9-1/2 in. diam.
The Virgin, in a fine landscape, leans her
back against the trunk of a tree, while Jesus,
