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The Sistine Madonna
1512–1513 · Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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A green curtain has been drawn back on its rod and rings, and Our Lady walks out on cloud, barefoot, the Christ Child heavy in her arms. Both look straight out. Johann Konrad Eberlein read the curtain as a tabernacle veil, a Marian sign of the Incarnation: the dwelling opened to carry a Body out. Saint Sixtus kneels at the left, one hand on his breast, the other turned toward you, and his tiara sits on the ledge at the very front, crowned with the della Rovere acorn, the pope's family device laid at the threshold. A woman kneels opposite with lowered eyes; two small angels lean on the sill below. In Piacenza, the Dresden Gemäldegalerie says, her gaze and her Son's went past you, to the back of a crucifix on the choir screen: Mother and Child looking at the Cross.
Sources: the gazes directed at the back of the crucifix on the choir screen; the angels in the cloud · the painted curtain rod and rings · the acorn on the tiara and oak leaves on the cope as the della Rovere device · Johann Konrad Eberlein, "The Curtain in Raphael's Sistine Madonna", The Art Bulletin 65, no. 1 (1983), 61-77.