Madonna of Peace (Pinturicchio)
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| Artist | Pinturicchio |
| Year | c.1490 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 143 cm × 70 cm (56 in × 28 in) |
| Location | Pinacoteca civica Tacchi-Venturi, San Severino Marche |
Madonna of Peace is an oil on panel painting by Pinturicchio, now in the Pinacoteca civica Tacchi-Venturi in San Severino Marche. It is one of the few totally autograph works from the artist's early mature period.[1]
Liberato Bartelli gave it to the Duomo in San Severino Marche. He was a native of the city and was then serving as protonotary apostolic and canon of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome. At the end of 1488 he was made prior of the church in his home town - he seems to have commissioned the work to commemorate this event. Pinturicchio was then among a new generation of artists working in Rome and probably delivered the work around 1490. He used its figure of the Madonna as a model for later autograph works such as Madonna with the Christ Child Reading (North Carolina Museum of Art) and Madonna with the Christ Child Writing (Philadelphia Museum of Art), both datable to between 1494 and 1498. Other Madonnas derived from it (such as that in the Kress collection (now part of the National Gallery of Art in Washington) are studio works.