The Birth of the Virgin, ca. 1690, Oil on canvas, 80 1/2 x 67 1/4 in. (204.5 x 170.8 cm), Paintings, Francesco Solimena (Italian, Canale di Serino 1657–1747 Barra), Painted in the 1690s, the picture must have served as an altarpiece in a church in Naples. In the foreground the infant Virgin Mary is shown to nurses and her adoring father, while in the distance, enveloped in a heavenly radiance, is the child’s mother, Anna, lying in bed, attended by servants
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Birth, Virgin, ca, 1690, Oil, canvas, 80 1/2 x 67 1/4, 204.5 170.8 cm, Paintings, Francesco Solimena, Italian, Canale di Serino, 1657–1747, Barra, Painted, 1690s, picture must, served, altarpiece, church, Naples, foreground, infant Virgin Mary, shown, nurses, adoring father, distance, enveloped, heavenly radiance, child, mother, Anna, lying, bed, attended, servants
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