Sistine Madonna

American  

noun

1. a Madonna painted by Raphael for the Church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza, Italy.

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Example Sentences

The de Brécy Tondo, which sits in a collection set up by Cheshire businessman George Lester Winward and which was thought by some experts to have been a Victorian copy, has been the subject of research and debate for more than 40 years due to its resemblance to Raphael's Sistine Madonna.

From BBC

But he’s confident Raphael created the Tondo, perhaps even before he started the Sistine Madonna.

From Scientific American

Many art historians, however, insist the Tondo is the result of another painter copying one of Raphael’s most famous works, the Sistine Madonna.

From Scientific American

The program examined thousands of aspects of the faces in the Tondo and the Sistine Madonna, including their proportions, colors, textures and shading—“all of this and more,” says Hassan Ugail, a professor of visual computing at the University of Bradford in England, who performed the analysis.

From Scientific American

Many art historians remain unconvinced, and they suggest the Tondo’s exact resemblance to the Sistine Madonna is telling.

From Scientific American