(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
A painting by the Italian artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520), better known as Raphael. This piece was commissioned by the Florentine patrician and art patron Taddeo Taddei (1470 - 1529). It shows the virgin Mary with the infant Jesus and infant John the Baptist (the left kid with the staff). Mary herself is wearing a gold-bordered blue mantle set against a red dress: the blue symbolizes the church, the Virgin's purity and the heavens. The red symbolizes Christ's death, the earth and her nobility and elevated state. The Poppy in the background stands for Christ's passion, death and resurrection.Painting from 1506.
