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St.
Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read Oil on canvas Church of San Giuseppe alla Lungara, Rome This painting
is unlike any other I have seen of Anne teaching Mary to read. In
the others, the Virgin is always a child and the two are alone.
Here Mary is a young adult and St. Joseph
is present, looking up at the putti.
The painting hangs in a church dedicated to St. Joseph, which may explain these
unusual features. More of St. Anne Photographed at the
site by Richard Stracke
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