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Madonna della Vallicella
The Madonna della Vallicella is an oil-on-slate painting produced between 1606 and 1608 by Peter Paul Rubens. It is his second confirmed commission in Rome, after his now-lost painting cycle for Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.
It was produced as the high-altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome (also known as the "chiesa Nuova" or new church) and refers to an ancient miraculous icon of the Nicopeia (bringer of victory) or Kyriotissa (enthroned)
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Cortona's nave vault fresco of the 'Miracle of the Madonna della Vallicella' was executed in 1664–65. This is clearly set within an elaborated gold frame, a "quadro riportato", and is painted with a Venetian influenced view of "di sotto in su" (from below to above). His designs for the vault decoration around the painting, with elaborate white and gilt stucco work incorporating figurative, geometrical and naturalistic elements, were carried out by Cosimo Fancelli and Ercole Ferrata.
The walls of the