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 MADONNA OF THE CANOPY. See Madonna del Baldacchino.

MADONNA DEL CAPPUCCINO, Fra Bartolommeo (?), Galerie Abel, Paris; round, 4 ft. diameter. Virgin and Child, St. Francis kneeling between angels and the young Baptist giving fruits to the Saviour. Said to have been begun by Fra Bartolommeo and finished by Raphael; but Passavant says Raphael had nothing to do with it. Belonged to collection of Cardinal Bonzi, who took it to France in 1671.—Marchese, ii. 47; Passavant, Raphael, ii. 413; C. & C., Italy, iii. 477.

MADONNA DELLA CARAFFA (of the Bottle), attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, Palazzo Borghese, Rome. So called because a bottle containing flowers is one of its accessories. Painted in Florence about 1472; belonged to Clement VII., who greatly prized it. D'Argenville speaks of it as in the Vatican in 1762. It is probably by Lorenzo di Credi.—Heaton, 281; Rigollot, Hist. des Arts, etc., i. 264; Clement, 341; Richter, Leonardo, 8.

Madonna del Cardellino, Raphael, Uffizi, Florence.

MADONNA DEL CARDELLINO (of the Goldfinch), Raphael, Tribune of the Uffizi, Florence; wood, H. 3 ft. 1 in. × 2 ft. 5 in.; figures full-length, under life-size. The Virgin, seated in a meadow, holding a book, looking at infant St. John, who is offering a goldfinch to Jesus; in distance the city of Florence. Painted in 1506 as a wedding present for Lorenzo Nasi of Florence. In 1547, when the Casa Nasi was crushed by a landslip from Monte S. Giorgio, the picture was broken into pieces, which have been cleverly joined. Copies in Geneva Museum, in Consiglio di Stato at Florence, and in possession of Mr. Verity in London, but none by Raphael. Engraved by R. Morghen (1814); Martinet; P. Nocchi; A. Krüger (1830); J. Pavon; Reipenhausen.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 322; Passavant, i. 34; Müntz, 180; C. & C., Raphael, i. 256; Gruyer, Vierges de Raphael, iii. 146; Molini, Gal. di Firenze, i. 121; Perkins, 73; Lübke, Raphael, 34, 96; Rosini, iv. 48.

MADONNA OF THE CARTHUSIANS, Antonio da Murano and Bartolomeo Vivarini, Bologna Gallery; wood, tempera. In centre, the Virgin enthroned adoring Jesus asleep in her lap; on one side, in a niche, a bishop with book and crozier; on the other, SS. Jerome, John Baptist, and Nicholas of Bari; upper course, centre, Christ between angels; in niches, SS. Peter, Gregory, Augustine (?), and Paul, in half-length. Painted in Venice in 1450, by order of Pope Nicholas V., to commemorate the services of Cardinal Albergati. One of the most tasteful combinations of architectural carving and panel painting of its period in N. Italy. The figures show the influence of the Paduan school as affected by Donatello.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 30; Rosini, Pl. 61.

MADONNA DELLA CASA D' ALBA (of the Alva Family), Raphael, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; wood, round, 9-1/2 in. diam. The Virgin, in a fine landscape, leans her back against the trunk of a tree, while Jesus,