Madonna and Child 1711

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This oil painting on canvas by Italian Baroque artist Carlo Maratti, titled “Madonna and Child,” depicts the Virgin Mary cradling the Christ child. The painting, housed at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, showcases Maratti's signature delicate brushwork and graceful figures, characteristic of the High Baroque style. The composition and the subtle interplay of light and shadow create a sense of calm devotion. It was completed in 1711, just two years before the artist’s death. This work is a quintessential example of the devotional imagery favored by the Catholic Church in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Carlo Maratti, a preeminent painter in late 17th-century Rome, was nicknamed Carluccio delle Madonne, or Little Carlo of the Madonnas. He produced an endless variety of works depicting an idealized, comforting vision of the Virgin and Child. This chubby infant Christ, holding an apple, looks piously up toward God while his somber mother and an adolescent angel seem to contemplate his fate. The painting may be a very late work by Maratti—an old inscription on the back of the canvas dates it to 1711—or it may have been done by one of his many Roman followers.