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Coronation of the Virgin (Beccafumi)
Painting by Domenico Beccafumi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coronation of the Virgin is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1539 by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Beccafumi, now in the Pinacoteca nazionale in Siena.
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Commissioned by the monks of Ognissanti in Siena, it was moved to Santo Spirito church after that church was destroyed and was only recently moved to the gallery.[1] Unusually for the subject, its lower register shows not the apostles but three saints and a pope, namely Mary Magdalene, Anthony of Padua, Pope Gregory XI and Catherine of Alexandria.