# The Holy Family with St Dorothy

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CAROSELLI, Angelo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caroselli-angelo-re9c19a42ce0ef5>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on panel, 53 x 46 cm

## Commentary

This composition is set against a drape and a view onto a distant landscape. The Virgin and Child are supported by a marble relief on which a classical scene is carved. St Dorothy seems to be kneeling before Christ, offering him a basket of roses.

## Related artworks

- [Penitent Magdalen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caroselli-angelo-re9c19a42ce0ef5/penitent-magdalen-r0767b0f183b072>)
- [Rest on the Flight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caroselli-angelo-re9c19a42ce0ef5/rest-on-the-flight-into-egypt-r61b65c98c8e873>)
- [The Penitent Magdalen or Vanitas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caroselli-angelo-re9c19a42ce0ef5/the-penitent-magdalen-or-vanitas-r3a52acc5ab8e39>)
- [The Virgin and Child with Sts Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caroselli-angelo-re9c19a42ce0ef5/the-virgin-and-child-with-sts-elizabeth-and-the-infant-john-the-baptist-r1af6b6f3b0bf08>)
- [Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/caroselli-angelo-re9c19a42ce0ef5/virgin-and-child-with-the-infant-st-john-the-baptist-rb0c869baffd324>)

## Attribution

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