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Print, Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]," (Account by Alfonso Isachi regarding the Origin, Festivities, Procession, and Miracles of the Madonna of Reggio)
On May 12, 1619, citizens of the Italian town of Reggio Emilia transferred the miraculous painting of the Virgin of Reggio to a new shrine, and organized a procession to celebrate. This print, taken from a book describing the event, illustrates a float for the parade in the form of a fantastical, fire-breathing dragon, upon whose neck sits the Virgin and Child. |