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Madonna of the Goldfinch
c. 1505–1506 · Oil on wood · Gallerie degli Uffizi / Uffizi Galleries, Firenze
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image 14.3×20 in on a 16×20 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
A goldfinch sits in the young John the Baptist's hands, and the Christ Child reaches out to stroke it. The National Gallery in London records the legend that the red mark on the bird's face is Christ's own blood, splashed there when it drew a thorn from His head on the road to Calvary, and the Uffizi reads the bird as a sign of the Passion. His bare foot rests on His Mother's foot. Our Lady holds a book open in one hand, a finger between the pages, which Smarthistory reads as interrupted reading. Raphael painted it for the wedding of Lorenzo Nasi in 1506. In 1547 a landslide destroyed the Nasi house and broke the painting into seventeen pieces. The small bird is still whole in John's hands.
Sources: Goldfinch symbolizes the Passion; commission for Lorenzo Nasi's 1506 wedding; pyramidal composition from Leonardo/Michelangelo; museum tombstone facts · Legend of goldfinch plucking a thorn from Christ's crown (framed as legend, not fact); bare-foot touch as humanizing detail; book-in-lap as interrupted-reading/Annunciation motif · 1547 landslide destroyed the Nasi palazzo and shattered the panel into seventeen fragments (restorer's identity deliberately omitted per do_not_print hedge) · The National Gallery, London, collection glossary, 'Goldfinches'.