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 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, Leben und Werke des Soddoma (Stuttgart, 1870), 162; Meyer, Künst. Lex., 221.

MADONNA WITH THE CAMERLENGHI, Tintoretto, SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice; canvas, H. about 7 ft. × 18 ft. The Madonna, seated in a Venetian loggia, attended by SS. Sebastiano, Rocco, Marco, and Teodoro; in front, the three Camerlenghi (chamberlains) in their official dress, kneel or bend before her as the three Magi; behind them, three Venetian servants with offerings in a sack. Absurd as an Adoration of the Magi, but perfect as a piece of portraiture and artistical composition. Formerly in the ex-Magistrato de' Camerlenghi.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 306; Zanotto, 289; Boschini, 265.

MADONNA DEL CAMPANELLO (of the Bell), Bartolommeo Schidone, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 10 in. × 8 in. The Virgin, seated, with Jesus in her lap; he reaches forward to take a bell from her hand.—Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iii. Pl. 98.

Madonna dei Candelabri, Raphael, Butler-Johnstone Collection.

MADONNA DEI CANDELABRI (of the Candelabras) or DEI FIACCOLE (of the Torches), Raphael, Butler-Johnstone Collection, London; round, wood, 2 ft. 1-1/2 in. diameter. The Virgin, with Jesus on her knees, her eyes downcast, is looking toward the spectator. On each side an angel holding a torch. These are later 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. Painted in Rome in 1516-17; the latest of Raphael's Madonnas which represent only the Virgin and Child. In Rome, in last century, in Palazzo Borghese, whence sometimes called Borghese Madonna; passed thence to Lucien Bonaparte, then to Maria Louisa, daughter of Charles IV. 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; Gustave Lévy.—Gruyer, Vierges de Raphael, iii. 97; Passavant, ii. 243; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 132; London Times, June 3, 1878; London Telegraph, June 3, 1878; Lübke, Raphael, 56, 109.

MADONNA, CANIGIANI. See Holy Family, Canigiani.

MADONNA OF CANON VAN DER PAELE, Jan van Eyck, Bruges Academy; wood, H. 4 ft. × 5 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1436. 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 (Keane), 227; W. & W., ii. 20; C. & C., Flemish Painters, 108; Le Beffroi, ii. 28.