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THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - CRIVELLI - 11" x 18 1/2"
This beautiful giclée print is a replica of the original painting by Carlo Crivelli (ca. 1457). It is framed in an antiqued gold wood frame with a finished back and wire hanger.
Measures 10”W x 18¼”H.
Crivelli painted this unusual image of the Virgin standing alone without the Christ Child for the church of San Francesco, in Pergola, a little town in the north of the Italian Marche. The Virgin is depicted in a particular role, surrounded by symbols and texts that express the thought that she was conceived Immaculate - that is, without original sin.
She stands in a marble niche against a burnished gold ground, indicating that she is in heaven. Two angels hover above her head, carrying a banner with the words in Latin that say, "As from the beginning I was conceived in the mind of God, so have I in like manner been conceived in the flesh."
At the top of the painting, God the Father looks down from the blue cloud of heaven, His hand raised immediately above the dove of the Holy Ghost, which floats down to the Virgin on golden rays.