
Why is the Madonna in the paintings represented with a blue mantle?
Raffaello Sanzio, Madonna del Cardellino (about 1506), Uffizi Galleries, Florence. The veil of the Madonna it becomes blue coloror as it was called at the time, blue overseas, between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance: it was in fact a color of considerable economic value, obtained from a precious stone like the lapislazzulo, and therefore it was reserved in ...








