Madonna and Child with Four Doctors of the Church

Madonna and Child with Four Doctors of the Church is an oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, created between 1540 and 1545.It is now housed in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt. From left to right it shows Saint Ambrose (standing, looking at the Madonna), Gregory the Great, Saint Jerome (both sitting) and Augustine of Hippo (standing, looking to the right).

The work was first recorded in Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso, the national church of the Lombards in Rome, where it was mentioned for the first time by Filippo Titi during the second half of the 17th century, though he misattributed it to Pordenone or Titian. It is not known when it was moved to that church, which was built from 1612 onwards - in 1943 György Gombosi theorised that it had been given to the church by the Ottoboni family, though he did not cite his sources for that hypothesis However, the Ottoboni fami…

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