Immaculate Madonna, , Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli, Italian, 1654–1735, 22 x 11 x 7 in. ( x x cm), Marble, Italy, 18th century, Ponsonelli presents a vision of the Virgin Mary floating on clouds, one foot placed firmly on the crescent moon, the other on a dragon (symbol of the devil). The Immaculate Madonna was a popular subject with Baroque painters. Like other artists, Ponsonelli ramped up the drama by showing Mary’s clothes in tumultuous movement, her wind-whipped drapery a masterly rendering in marble. The foremost sculptor in Genoa in the early 1700s, Ponsonelli

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