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{{Short description|Painting by Antonio da Correggio from 1520}}
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{{Infobox Artwork
| image_file=Correggio-(antonio-allegri)-madonna-del-latte-36018-p.jpg
| image_size=300px
| title=Nursing Madonna with an Angel
| artist=[[Antonio da Correggio]]
| year={{circa|1524}}
| type= oil paint on panel
| height_metric=69
| width_metric=57
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| museum=[[Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)|Museum of Fine Arts]]
| city=Budapest
}}
'''''Nursing Madonna with an Angel''''' is an oil painting on panel by [[Correggio]], painted around 1524 and now in the [[Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)|Museum of Fine Arts]] in Budapest.<ref>{{in lang|it}} Giuseppe Adani, ''Correggio pittore universale'', Silvana Editoriale, Correggio 2007. {{ISBN|9788836609772}}</ref> It measures 68.5 by 87 cm and belongs to the [[Nursing Madonna]] or ''Madonna Lactans'' genre.
==History==
The painting's style places it around the same time as the commission of paintings for the Del Bono Chapel in the abbey church of [[San Giovanni Evangelista (Parma)|San Giovanni Evangelista]], that is at the start of the 1530s. Nothing more is known about who commissioned it or when, and the first documentary evidence for it is a 1603 inventory of the [[Aldobrandini]] collection in Rome, where it was probably admired by [[Federico Barocci]] and later by the young [[Anthony van Dyck]] and [[Pietro da Cortona]]. It was praised by Giulio Ottonelli in his ''Trattato della Pittura e della Scultura, uso et abuso loro'' as a model to explain how a religious subject could succeed unlike a secular one. According to Ottonelli, the main Roman cardinals of the 17th century competed to possess the ''Nursing Madonna''. There is an engraving of the painting<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.correggioarthome.it/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=173&idSezioneRif=54|title=Lelio Orsi, Madonna col Bambino e i Santi Andrea e Giuda, XVI sec. – Correggio ART HOME|first=Netribe|last=srl|website=www.correggioarthome.it}}</ref> and a drawing of it by [[Lelio Orsi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.correggioarthome.it/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=106&idSezioneRif=54|title=Anonimo, Madonna del latte, da Correggio, XVI sec. – Correggio ART HOME|first=Netribe|last=srl|website=www.correggioarthome.it}}</ref>
==References==
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{{Antonio da Correggio}}
[[Category:Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Correggio]]
[[category:1524 paintings]]
[[Category:Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)]]
[[Category:Angels in art]]