Our Lady of the Rosary

Madonna of the Rosary is a 1539 oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Lorenzo Lotto, signed and dated below the Virgin Mary's feet ".L.LOTUS.MDXXXIX.".

It was commissioned by the Confraternity of the Rosary in the Italian town of Cingoli in the province of Macerata as an altarpiece for the church of San Domenico. After completing the work, Lotto left the Marche to return to Venice one last time. To preserve the painting it was moved in the 1970s to the church of San Niccolò, then into the town's Pinacoteca comunale before being returned to San Domenico.

Saint Dominic kneels at the bottom left before the Madonna and Child – she hands him the crown of the rosary to combat heresy. To the right kneels the town's patron saint Exuperantius, offering a model of the town to be blessed by the Christ Child. Behind Dominic are Mary Magdalene and a doctor saint (Thomas Aquinas or Vincenzo Ferre…

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