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 Italy, iii. 561; Ch. Blanc, École florentine; Lavice, 52.

MADONNA DEL BACINO. See Holy Family del Bacino.

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