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The Virgin Immaculate

Technical Details
  • Title
    The Virgin Immaculate
  • Author
    Bernardo Cavallino
  • Year
    1647
  • Dimensions
    cm 165 x 115
  • Inventory
    2333
  • Room
    XXXI

Mary’s Immaculate Conception – without original sin – was celebrated in Naples as early as the 11th century but only acquired dogmatic status in 1854. The iconography dictated by Spanish painter Francisco Pacheco – a girl in a white gown with a blue mantle, her hands joined in prayer over her breast – became the official and hugely popular image of the Immaculate Conception following the Council of Trent, particularly in Spain and Naples. Cavallino himself tackled the theme on numerous occasions.

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