The Madonna and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Mary Magdalen
by CIMA da Conegliano, Oil on wood, 167 x 110 cm
The painting is from the church of the Convent of San Domenico, Parma. The model of the Sacred Conversation, developed in the 1470s by Giovanni Bellini and Antonello da Messina, and which Cima da Conegliano borrows here, became widely used outside the Veneto, reaching Emilia and Romagna, and continued until the early sixteenth century.