MADOKNA in 1790 to Gavin Hamilton for 30 ducats, it being supposed to bo a copy ; afterwards in collection of Earl of Suffolk, of whom bought for National Gallery in 1880 for 9,000. Thought by English critics to be the orig- inal of the picture in tho Louvre, but Eich- tcr considers it a copy. Lomazzo, Tratta- to, ii. 171 ; Art Journal (1881), 30 ; (1884), 113 ; Waagcn, Treasures, iii. 108 ; Eichter, Leonardo, 99 ; Ital. Art. in Nat. Gal., 101 ; Heaton, Leonardo, 228. MADONNA, EOGEES, Raphael, Mrs. E. J. Mackintosh, London ; wood, H. 2 ft. 8 in. X '2 ft. 1 in. The Virgin sitting behind a parapet on which Jesus stands ; he has his arms around her neck, and she supports him with one arm while the other clasps one of his feet. Painted in Eome about 1511. In Orleans Gallery ; sold for 150 guineas to Mr. AVillet ; passed to Henry Hope and to Samuel Eogers, the poet ; sold in 185G to E. J. Mackintosh. Copies in Bergamo, Pcstli, and Eome. Study for the heads in British Museum. Engraved by J. C. Flipart, and others. Cab. Crozat, i. PI. 22 ; Waagcn, Treasures, ii. 70, 194 ; Gruyer, Vicrges de Eaphael, iii. 91 ; Passavaut, ii. 120 ; Miintx, 377. MADONNA DELLA EONDINE (of the Swallow), Carlo Cricdli, National Gallery, London ; wood, tempera, 4 ft. 11 in. x 3 ft. in. The Virgin and Child enthroned, with SS. Jerome and Sebastian. Enriched with fruit and flowers, and with a swallow. In a predella below are : St. Catherine ; St. Je- rome in Wilderness ; Nativity ; Martyrdom of St. Sebastian ; St. George and Dragon. Painted after 1490. Formerly in Church of Franciscans, Matelica ; acquired in 1802 from Count L. de Sanctis, Matelica. Cat. Nat. Gal. ; Eichter, Italian Art in Nat. Gal., 83, 108. MADONNA DELLA EONDINELLA (of the Swallow), dncnino, Palazzo Pitti, Flor- ence ; canvas, H. 3 ft, 10 in x 4 ft. 7 in. The Virgin, seated in clouds, turns her head mournfully towards an angel, who presents her a rose ; Jesus, in her lap, holds a swal- low on his finger. The group of Virgin and Child is identical with that in the upper part of St. William taking the Monastic Habit, in the Bologna Gallery, excepting that in the latter picture Jesus has in his hand a cross instead of a swallow. En- graved by Bonafede. Gal. du Pal. Pitti, ii. PL 17. MADONNA DELLA EOSA (of the Eose), Parmigianino, Dresden Gallery ; wood, H. 4 ft. x 3 ft. 2 in. The Infant Jesus reclin- ing and resting one hand upon the globe of the earth, holds in the other a rose apparently just received from the Virgin. Painted, according to Vasari, for Pietro Are- tino, the poet, but presented to Clement VII. on his visit to Bologna (1529) to crown Charles V.; afterwards in hands of Zaui fam- ily of that city. Affo says it was originally a Venus and Cupid, and thinks it was sold to Zani. It was bought in Eome in 1752 by Crespi of the prelate Dion. Zani for Au- gustus III, King of Poland, for 5,000 scudi. Engraved by G. C. Veneuti ; Dom. Pelle- grini. Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 228 ; Affo, Vita . . . Parmigianiuo, 71 ; Ch. Blanc, cole lombarde, Parmigiauiuo ; Gal. roy. do Dresde, ii. PL 3. By Raphael, Madrid Museum ; wood, transferred to canvas, H. 3 ft. 8 in. x 3 ft. (Virgen de la Eosa). The Virgin, seated, with Jesus on her knees, with John Baptist, at left, offering a scroll inscribed Ecce Ag- nus Dei ; behind, St. Joseph, in contempla- tion. Painted about 1517 ; placed by Phil- ip IV. in Escorial. Sometimes called Holy Family of the Legend ; but more commonly as above, because a rose was painted in the lower part when the picture was restored (about 1852). Many copies, with variations. Engraved by Forster ; Sirain. Gruyer, Vierges de Eaphael, iii. 372 ; Passavant, ii. 533 ; Liibke, Eaphael, 79, 115 ; Madrazo, 193. By Sassoferrato, Turin Gallery ; canvas, H. 2 ft, 4 in. x 1 ft. 11 in. The Virgin, seated, half-length, in front of a curtain in a landscape, with Jesus lying in her lap ; 146
