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The Immaculate Conception
1767–1769 · Oil on canvas · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
For the Immaculate Conception · 8 December
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All editionsAbout this painting
A mirror lies at the bottom edge, half in shadow. Above it Our Lady stands on the crescent moon and the globe, one foot on the serpent, an apple at its jaw. Her hands are joined, her eyes nearly closed; the Dove of the Holy Spirit hangs over her with a ring of stars. The Prado reads the mirror as her freedom from stain, the palm as victory, the serpent as Original Sin defeated, and the moon and twelve stars as the Woman of the Apocalypse; the Dove, it says, is the Holy Spirit present at her conception. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted her as one of seven altarpieces commissioned in 1767 for San Pascual Bailon at Aranjuez, the church Charles III founded that year. It was his last major commission. Under her foot the serpent keeps its apple, and has no one left to give it to.
Sources: Museo del Prado, main collection page · Museo del Prado, 'easy-to-read' companion page · Courtauld Gallery, Collection Online