Madonna of the Caves
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Madonna of the Caves
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The Madonna of the Caves is a tempera on panel painting measuring 32 cm 29.6 cm. It was painted in 1488-1490 by the Italian painter Andrea Mantegna and is now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It is named after a stone quarry in the right-hand background, where workers are carving out a capital, a slab, part of a column shaft and a sarcophagus, perhaps alluding to Christ future flagellation and burial. The rock on which the Virgin sits may also be intended to represent the summit of Calvary, wh
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Painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1488–1490
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_of_the_Caves
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2023-06-19T09:27:48Z
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