Posted 9 years ago
gypsyprinc…
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framed by L. Schuerman & Sons 429 Water St. Decatur, IL.
This is a large 34" tall x 24" wide frame and picture depicting Madonna Della Sedia
am not sure if it is a print chromograph or lithograph. Seems it would be from the 1920's or earlier. i did not remove the backing or take it out to look closer. It appears to be a one of a kind.
I stopped to ask before taking a vintage old chair and ottoman from an alley. The guy helped load it up even and then proceeded to open his garage after i told him i love antiques. He came out with this large picture and said here this is antique you can have it.
Gotta love that! the artwork and the frame are beautiful.
Is that Bella or Della? Was in luv with a Della for 38 yrs & always wondered what language the name came from. No luck O/L.
Oh, I love this print.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_della_seggiola The Madonna della seggiola or Madonna della sedia is a Madonna painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael, dating to c. 1513-1514 and housed in the Palazzo Pitti collection in Florence. It depicts Mary embracing the child Christ, while the young John the Baptist devoutly watches.
Painted during his Roman period, this Madonna does not have the strict geometrical form and linear style of his earlier Florentine treatments of the same subject. Instead, the warmer colors seem to suggest the influence of Titian and Raphael's rival Sebastiano del Piombo.
Maria Montessori, Italian doctor and pioneer in pedagogy, wrote that it was her wish that the Madonna della seggiola hang in each Children's House (Montessori school) as a symbol of "humanity [St. John] rendering homage to maternity [Madonna]".[1]
Ingres greatly admired Raphael and paid tribute to him by including this painting in many of his works, such in the background of as Henri IV playing with his children and Raphael and La Fornarina, on the table in front of the subject in his Portrait of monsieur Rivière, and worked into the carpet in Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne. Johann Zoffany also included this painting along with many others in his 1770s painting of the Tribuna of the Uffizi.[2]
Thanks. So Della means "of the".
Yes, In Italian.
We always figured it was from that old Perry Mason series, but still didn't know a meaning. The meanings of names is interesting & I have learned a bit about it over the yrs..