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Madonna del Rosario e Santi Montalcino
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Artist: Il Rustichino
Year: 1622 - 1625
Current location: Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo di Sant'Angelo in colle
Original location: Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo di Sant'Angelo in colle
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
Tempera on canvas, 279 x 186 cm
Painting of Our Lady of the Rosary with Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena between Saint Anne, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Bernardine of Siena, and Saint Benedict
The painting was originally located on the second altar on the right, whose decoration was enriched by thirteen small oil paintings depicting the Mysteries of the Rosary.
Seven of them were stolen during a theft suffered by the Church in 1976, another one disappeared previously, had been replaced with a photograph of a work by Tiepolo, while the five surviving ones, depicting "the Agony in the Garden", "Christ Mocked", "Pentecost", "the Assumption" and "the Coronation of the Virgin", were deposited in 1991 at the Superintendency of Artistic and Historical Heritage of the Provinces of Siena and Grosseto.
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