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LA SÉLECTION · No. 40

14 June 2026

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Cornelis van Cleve (1520–1567) — The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in front of a Blue Curtain
Cornelis van Cleve (1520–1567) — The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in front of a Blue Curtain. Illustration from La Sélection no. 40.

This week, we are delighted to present, as our Private View of the Week, a captivating allegorical painting by Cesare Dandini, one of the most refined Florentine painters of the seventeenth century. Identified through Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia as an Allegory of Magnificence, the work embodies the princely virtue of undertaking great and noble enterprises, symbolised here by the architectural plan held by the central figure.

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