Madonna of Graces with Two Saints

'Madonna of Graces with Two Saints is a 1522 fresco painting by Perugino. Its central figure shows Mary as Our Lady of Graces, flanked by Antony the Great and Antony of Padua. It is in a side chapel of the church of Sant’Agnese, the Poor Clares convent in Perugia. It was commissioned a year before the painter's death by Eufrasia and Teodora, two nuns of the convent.[1]

Madonna of Graces with Two Saints (1522) by Perugino

References
  1. Vittoria Garibaldi, Perugino, in Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Florence, 2004 (Italian) (ISBN 88-8117-099-X)
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