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    In art, a sacra conversazione (Italian: [ˈsaːkra koɱversatˈtsjoːne]; plural: sacre conversazioni), meaning "holy (or sacred) conversation", is a genre...
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    painter Giovanni Bellini. Inspired by a plague outbreak in 1485, this sacra conversazione painting is unique in that it was designed in situ with the surrounding...
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  • Greek language Holy Scripture Sacra (ancient Rome), transactions related to the worship of the gods Sacra conversazione, a depiction of the Madonna with...
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    clearly looking out at the viewer, adding a tone of inclusion. The sacra conversazione (sacred conversation), which was originally developed in Florence...
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    the Angel, 1620s In a number of larger paintings such as altarpieces and sacra conversazioni Tobias, with his fish and dog, can be considered as attributes...
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    communication The Cambridge Apostles also known as The Cambridge Conversazione Society Sacra conversazione - (holy or sacred conversation), a genre developed in...
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    Pallavicini in Rome. Botticelli's earliest surviving altarpiece is a large sacra conversazione of about 1470–72, now in the Uffizi. The painting shows Botticelli's...
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    abandoned in favour of single-panel, painted altarpieces. In Italy, the sacra conversazione developed, a group usually centred on the Virgin and Child, flanked...
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    Appear at Auction in Nearly Twenty Years". www.artdaily.com. "Titian: Sacra Conversazione". "Accredited Diplomatic Agents in Venice - British History Online"...
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    the Louvre Museum in Paris. It may be considered as a very early sacra conversazione. Gherardo di Bartolomeo Barbadori, who died childless in 1429, left...
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    Western Christendom since late antiquity. Masaccio's fresco is a sacra conversazione, a popular type of Renaissance religious imagery that portrayed contemporary...
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    projects with religious themes, including a crucifixion scene and a sacra conversazione, though neither was completed. This may have been due in part to...
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    where it was deposited by Napoleon. The work, of a type known as a sacra conversazione, was commissioned by Federico III da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino...
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    the 18th century. The picture has all the elements of a typical sacra conversazione, with the Madonna enthroned with the child, with St. Francis to the...
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    represent forces of evil being trampled on by the Virgin. It is a sacra conversazione showing the Virgin and Child flanked by putti and two saints (Saint...
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    Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome Pietà (1540) - Galleria Borghese, Rome Sacra Conversazione (1542) - Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa Saint Sebastian with...
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    Cambridge. It has been described as "almost certainly ... the first true sacra conversazione", or painting of the Virgin and Child with saints on a unified scale...
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    just after the Barbarigo Altarpiece and belongs to the popular sacra conversazione genre. The painting is also referred to as Sacred Conversation. (in...
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    Balbi Holy Conversation (Italian: Sacra conversazione, also known as Titian Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Dominic and a Donor) is an oil painting...
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    paintings as a self- portrait and Adam and Eve by Palma Giovane, a Sacra Conversazione by Palma Vecchio and a Madonna and Child by Bernardo Strozzi. It...
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    1507–1508 is the Madonna of the Baldacchino, a large altarpiece with a sacra conversazione organised around the central point constituted by the Virgin's throne...
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    Angelico (along with Saint Dominic Adoring the Crucifixion and the Sacra Conversazione known as Virgin of the Shadows) before which the friars recited a...
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    add angels and saints from later periods, to produce versions of a sacra conversazione. Examples are Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Holy...
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    Castelfranco, Giorgione painted the Castelfranco Madonna, an altarpiece in sacra conversazione form—Madonna enthroned, with saints on either side forming an equilateral...
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    He also painted religious pieces, in particular developing the sacra conversazione (the Virgin and Child with a group of saints and perhaps donors)...
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    fresco fragment by the Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico in the sacra conversazione style. It was originally painted in the dormitory of the Convent...
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    Funerary monument of Ilaria del Carretto Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sacra Conversazione, 1479 Jacopo Tintoretto, The Last Supper Labyrinth on the portico...
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    Bordone's works of the 1520s include the Holy Family in Florence, Sacra Conversazione with Donor (Glasgow), and Holy Family with St. Catherine (Hermitage...
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    saints may be grouped informally in a type of composition known as a Sacra conversazione. The Madonna of humility refers to portrayals in which the Madonna...
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    small angels). But the nursing Virgin is sometimes the centre of a sacra conversazione with saints, and perhaps donor portraits. In Dutch and Flemish Renaissance...
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