Madonna of the Rose Garden (Luini)

Madonna of the Rose Garden (Italian - Madonna del Roseto) is a c.1510 oil on panel painting by Bernardino Luini, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, which acquired it from the Giuseppe Bianchi collection in 1826.^[1]

A masterpiece of the artist's youth, it is traditionally thought to have been commissioned by the Certosa di Pavia, though no documents survive to support or deny this. The Madonna's face is heavily influenced by Leonardo da Vinci. The Christ Child points to a vase with his left hand, referring to his mother as the mystic vase, and with his right hand holds the stem of the aquilegia growing in it, its reddish colour referring to his own Passion.^[2]

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