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The Marriage of the Virgin (Michelino da Besozzo)

Painting by Michelino da Besozzo

Summary

Painting by Michelino da Besozzo

Field	Value
image_file	The Marriage of The Virgin .1430.jpg
image_size	250px
title	Marriage of the Virgin
artist	Michelino da Besozzo
year	c. 1435
medium	Tempera on panel
height_metric	65.1
width_metric	47.6
metric_unit	cm
imperial_unit	in
museum	Metropolitan Museum of Art
city	New York

The Marriage of the Virgin is a painting by the Italian late medieval painter Michelino da Besozzo, dating from c. 1435 and housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.

It is the artist's only certain one alongside Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine in the Pinacoteca Nazionale at Siena.

Description

The painting depicts the Virgin Mary while receiving the marriage ring by Saint Joseph, in front of a priest of the Temple of Jerusalem. Michelino painted a Dove of the Holy Ghost above Joseph, to underline the supernatural choice of him as Mary's husband. At the right is a group of women, while on the left are the other pretenders, painted in angered postures: one, in the foreground, is cracking a stick. The latter is a theme found in numerous following representation of the scene, including Raphael's.

The scene is set in a portico, with limited use of gold in the background, showing that is a late work by Michelino.

Sources

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