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The Institution of the Rosary

Circle of Jacopo Sansovino

The Institution of the Rosary

c. 1590

A bronze relief of 'The Institution of the Rosary' produced in the circle of Jacopo Sansovino in mid-16th-century Venice. The Virgin distributes the rosary to Saint Dominic and a kneeling faithful, rendered in the sculpturally fluid idiom of the Venetian Renaissance. Bronze, Art Institute of Chicago.

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