19th century Madonna with child Oil on panel, 61 x 61 cm According to a construction that recalls the engraving by Giovanni Folo, this Madonna with Child is a re-proposition of an enigmatic painting by Raffaello Sanzio now kept in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Known as the Madonna of the Candelabra, the painting was painted by Raphael and his students around 1513-1514, the years of decoration of the Room of Heliodorus. The tondo shows the Madonna with the Child between two torch-bearing angels, hence the name. Mary is seated in half-figure, with the Child on her lap. The two main figures, graceful and united by loving gestures, are rotated towards each other, filling a central ellipse of great monumental effect, which seems to foreshadow the Madonna della Seggiola. The motif of the candelabra is a cultured antiquarian citation, derived from imperial representations of ancient Rome and qualifies Christ and Mary as king and queen of heaven. The work comes from the Borghese collection in Rome and was the first painting by Raphael to enter an American museum in 1931. The painting presents modifications from the prototype, first of all the absence of the angelic figures on the sides and the lit candles. The round format and the diameter, which for the painting in Baltimore is 65 cm, are the same instead.