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Madonna with the Blue Diadem
is an
oil painting
on wood by
Raphael
and his pupil
Gianfrancesco Penni
that is held at the
Louvre
. Most likely completed in Rome in the 1510s, the painting features
Mary
symbolically lifting a veil over the sleeping
Christ Child
; Raphael had used the same theme in his
Madonna of Loreto
.
Painting:
Raphael
and
Gianfrancesco Penni
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