The Virgin Immaculate with the Four Doctors of the Church, Study for the Dispute over the Immaculate Conception 1625-1713 Carlo Maratti Italian Together with a second drawing in the Museums collection (inv. 62.137), the present sheet represents a composition study for the altarpiece commissioned from Maratti by Cardinal Alderano Cybo (1613-1700) for his private chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. Completed and installed in 1686, the painting represents the Dispute of the Four Doctors of the Church (Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Augustine, and Saint John Chrysostom) over the Immaculate Conception. Above the four saints appears the subject of their patristic discourse, the Immaculate Virgin Mary surrounded by a choir of angels, seated on a crescent moon, and crowned by a nimbus of stars. The present drawing records a preliminary idea for the whole composition - later modified - where the figure of the youthful John the Evangelist was intende
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