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Caravaggio - Madonna of the Rosary. Madonna del Rosario 1607

Madonna of the Rosary. Madonna del Rosario 1607
364x249cm oil/canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes

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The Madonna is seated on a throne, and seems to give assent with a wave of the hand to Saint Dominic who is dressed in his usual habit and holding a rosary. The faithful turn to him for grace, kneeling, with a donor portrait at far left, of a man in black with a ruff. On the right is St Peter Martyr with a large scar on his forehead (just like Caravaggio who was wounded in the head a few months earlier in the scuffle with Ranuccio Tommasoni and still had a visible scar), which indicates the Virgin who is out of the picture. Behind him are other Dominicans.