To those who may be receiving one of these post-notifications for the first time: This is not a blog; it’s actually part of a book, and will make little sense to you without knowledge of what has come before—which you can easily obtain, along with a goodly amount of satirical theatre as matters progress, by simply entering ttgftyri.org into your web browser, opening the menu, and starting at page one. J.J.
Well, we’re almost at that thousand—and we haven’t even left Italy yet; nor will we on this page, or then the next; because before we move on to the rest of Catholic Europe (now, now: I did say “a thousand or so”), and finally reach our goal in all this, I feel compelled to include a painting each from the work of some one hundred seventy Italian painters—most of them popular and/or artistically important in their day—whose general depictions of the Madonna easily meet our criteria, but whose full body of such work I’ve had to pass over in the interest of something approaching, dare I utter the word at this point, brevity.
Alphabetically, then . . .

The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Volterra

Citta ‘della Pieve, Perugia

Museo Regionale, Messina

Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence


Private Collection

Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Private Collection

The Frick, Pittsburgh

Private Collection

Städel Museum, Frankfurt au Main

Vatican Museums

Vatican Museums

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Private Collection

Lichtenstein Museum, Vienna

National Gallery, London

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

National Gallery, London

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Dayton Art Institute

Palazzo dei Musei, Modena


National Gallery, London

Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia

National Gallery, London

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

National Gallery, London

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Church of Sant’Andre, Alba


Museo del Prado, Madrid

Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia

Missing since 1969; stolen from a church in Palermo

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples

Private Collection

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid


Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome


Louvre, Paris

National Gallery of Scotland

Princeton University Museum


Private Collection
901: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Annunciation,_by_Francesco_Albani.jpg
902: Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/mariotto-albertinellhttps://www.beweb.chiesacattolica.it/benistorici/bene/5505326/Domenico+di+Paride+Alfani+%281521%29%2C+Madonna+della+Provvidenza+e+santi
904: Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Alibrandi
905: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annuncation_-_Alessandro_Allori.jpg
906: Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/395402042280629943/?nic_v1=1bRaEzTGJ5NR2fmeDKyH%2F6iwjTBVOParjRdZZk%2FWqdTc0j0u995KfVRIfP01pBf5qP
907: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_de_Saliba,_Madonna_and_Child_with_angels,_1510-5,_Church_of_Santa_Maria_di_Gesu,_Rabat,_Malta,_Photo_credit,_Joe_P_Borg.jpg
908: Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoniazzo_Romano
909: Art UK https://artuk.org/discover/artists/aspertini-amico-14751552
910: Fine Art America https://fineartamerica.com/featured/assereto-gioacchino-madonna-and-child-everett.html
911: Google A&C https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/madonna-and-child-with-st-elizabeth-and-st-john/QgEgEiJEgaoJug
912: Meister Drucke https://www.meisterdrucke.it/stampe-d-arte/Sisto-Badalocchio/267283/Madonna-col-bambino-%28olio-su-metallo%29.html
913: Arthive https://arthive.com/artists/953~Barnaba_da_Modena/works/4792~Mary_with_child
914: Flikr https://www.flickr.com/photos/hen-magonza/24098699463
915: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Federico_Barocci_-Rest_on_the_Flight_to_Egypt-_WGA1289.jpg
916: The Met https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458956
917: Christies https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/bartolomeo-veneto-active-1502-1531-madonna-and-5649711-details.aspx
918: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3a_Marco_Basaiti,_Madonna_with_Child,_c._1500_Lichtenstein_Museum,_Vienna.jpg
919: Art U.K. https://artuk.org/discover/artists/bastiani-lazzaro-before-14301512
920: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico_Beccafumi_-The_Holy_Family_with_Young_Saint_John-_WGA1543.png
921: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambrogio_bergognone,_madonna_col_bambino,_1488-90_ca._01.jpg
922: Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinghiero_Berlinghieri
923: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Holy_Family_with_a_Donor_in_a_Landscape_by_Pier_Francesco_Bissolo,_early_1520s,_dayton.jpg
924: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boccaccio_boccaccino,_adorazione_dei_pastori,_1501_ca._01.jpg
925: Hellenic World http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/en/DomenicoBeccafumi.html
926: Arthive https://arthive.com/artists/68~Giovanni_Antonio_Boltraffio/works/533457~The_Madonna_and_child
927: Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/326229566743619576/?nic_v1=1bnu6pfUwi6e3zMudg%2BqqQTWsy7ZFRe1g5slDwgCZxEqPy7rXQIAOxHWuCldD0Cir%2F
928: Histflorence http://histflorence.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-angelic-visions-of-botticini-and.html
929: Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaello_Botticini
930: Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramantino
931: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agnolo_bronzino,_madonna_stroganoff.JPG
932: The Met https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435824
933: Italian Art http://www.italian-art.ru/canvas/8-14_century/b/butinone_bernardino_follower_of/the_virgin_and_child/index.php?lang=en
934: Wikiwand https://www.wikiwand.com/it/Guglielmo_Caccia
935: Hellenica World http://www.hellenicaworld.com/Art/Paintings/en/LucaCambiaso.html
936: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincenzo_Campi_Cristo_inchiodato_alla_Croce_Prado.jpg
937: Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/391461392601355353/?nic_v1=1bKqJMDNQ8WkDlp0Z7XLSJHT5t5eHXz4VRBGYV2A5Bv0vNatEeivMN7C5yfOcm3Mx3
938: The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/16/a-caravaggio-for-christmas-is-his-stolen-nativity-masterpiece-about-to-return
939: Wikipedia https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madonna_del_Soccorso,_Severo_Ierace_e_Marco_Cardisco_001.jpg
940: Spencer Alley http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2019/03/giovanni-battista-carlone-1603-1684.html
941: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giacomo_Cavedone_Adoraci%C3%B3n_de_los_Pastores_Museo_del_Prado._Madrid.jpeg
942: Salamon Gallery https://www.salamongallery.com/dipinti_opera.php?codice=121
943: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michele_di_Luca_dei_Coltellini_-Madonna_and_Child_Enthroned_with_Saints-_Walters_37880.jpg
944: Christian Iconography https://www.christianiconography.info/staMariaMaggiore/salusPopuliRomani.html
945: Pixels https://pixels.com/featured/the-adoration-of-the-magi-francesco-curradi.html
946: Wikipedia https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fra_Diamante_Madonna_Benson.jpg
947: Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenichino
948: Wikipedia https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE,%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8
949: Dorotheum https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/6423825/
950: Pinterest https://www.pinterest.es/pin/650418371163318679/?nic_v1=1b3Rnu7JUaUJdaIHW8WZ%2BhutIcZr4qXKvnHEy8e%2B0j2mTohNyHjPkR58vzVFhS83pB