The Miracle of the Madonna of the Fire, c. 1725, Aureliano Milani, Italian (Bologna), Italian (Bologna), 1675 - 1747, 54 1/4 x 38 in. ( x cm) (canvas)68 3/4 x 52 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( x x cm) (outer frame)45 x 39 1/2 in. ( x cm) (sight), Oil on canvas, Italy, 18th century, On the night of February 4, 1428, a devastating fire broke out in a schoolhouse in Forlì, a town in northern Italy. Eyewitnesses reported that everything in the school burned except a humble woodcut representing the Madonna and Child. In the foreground, precious books, a writing board

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