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 MADONNA last with a shoe in his hand. Painted in 1530 for the Guild of Shoemakers ; now nearly destroyed by fumes from a metal- founder's furnace. Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 391 ; Jansen, Lebeii uud Werke des Soddoma (Stuttgart, 1870), 102 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., 221. MADONNA WITH THE CAMEE- LENGHI, Tintoretto, SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice ; canvas, H. about 7 ft. x 18 ft. The Madonna, seated in a Venetian loggia, at- tended by SS. Sebastiauo, Roeco, Marco, and Teodoro ; in front, the three Camer- lenghi (chamberlains) in their official dress, kneel or bend before her as the three Ma"i ; Madonna del Candelabn, Raphael, Butler-Johnstone Collection. behind them, three Venetian servants with offerings in a sack. Absurd as an Adora- tion of the Magi, but perfect as a piece of portraiture and artistical composition. For- merly in the ex-Magistrato de' Camerlenghi. Euskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 300 ; Za- notto, 289 ; Boschini, 205. MADONNA DEL CAMPANELLO (of the Bell), Bartolomrneo Schidone, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; wood, H. 10 in. x 8 in. The Vir- gin, seated, with Jesus in her lap ; he reaches forward to take a bell from her hand. Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iii. PI. 98. MADONNA DEI CANDELABEI (of the Candelabras) or DEI FIACCOLE (of the Torches), Raphael, Butler-Johnstone Collec- tion, London ; round, wood, 2 ft. 14- in. diameter. The Virgin, with Jesus on" her knees, her eyes downcast, is looking tow- ard the spectator. On each side an angel holding a torch. These are Liter additions, not by Raphael. The principal figures have been much restored, but show admirable drawing ; the Virgin is noble and dignified, and the Child full of life and action. Paint- ed in Eome in 1510-17 ; the latest of Raph- ael's Madonnas which represent only the Virgin and Child. In Home, in last century, in Palazzo Borghcse, whence sometimes called Borgheso Madonna ; passed thence to Lucicn Bonaparte, then to Maria Louisa, daughter of Charles TV. of Spain and Queen of Etruria, from whom inherited by her son Charles Louis, Duke of Lucca, who sent it to London, where it was bought in 1841 by Mr. H. A. J. Munro, of Novar ; bought in at his sale (1878), for .20,000, by his nephew, Mr. H. A. Munro-Butler-Johnstone, who brought it to New York in 1882 and deposited it in the Metropolitan Museum, where it was offered for sale at $200,000. Returned to England in 1884. Engraved by Ern. Moraces ; Bettellini ; Blot ; Fabri ; Folo ; Bridoux ; Gustavo Levy. Gruyer, Vierges do Raphael, iii. 97 ; Passavant, ii. 243 ; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 132 ; London Times, Juno 3, 1878 ; London Telegraph, June 3, 1878 ; Liibkc, Raphael, 50, 109. MADONNA, CANIGIANI. See Hobj Family, Canigiaui. MADONNA OF CANON VAN DER PAELE, Jan van Eijck, Bruges Academy ; wood, H. 4 f t. x 5 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1430. The Virgin enthroned, under a canopy in a Roman church, holding Jesus, who has a parrot in his hand, in her lap ; to right, St. George, standing, raising his helmet, and Canon Van der Paele, the donor, kneeling ; to left, St. Donatian, standing. Painted for St. Donatian, Bruges. Old copy in Antwerp Museum. Dohme (Keaue), 227 ; W. & W., ii. 20 ; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 108 ; Le Beffroi, ii. 28. 131