Luigi Crosio (1835–1916) was an Italian painter who lived and worked in Turin , Italy. A fine draftsman and painter, Crosio's work was much sought after for lithographic reproduction.
3-876: Refugium Peccatorum Madonna or the Refuge of Sinners Madonna is a painting by the Italian artist Luigi Crosio . It was painted in 1898. Crosio originally painted the Madonna for the Kuenzil Brothers in Switzerland. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary carrying Jesus as a child . In 1964 the Swiss province of the Schoenstatt Sisters purchased the original painting. It was then also called
6-741: The Mother Thrice Admirable Madonna . This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Luigi Crosio Crosio was born in Acqui Terme . He attended the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arte in Turin. His immediate work afterwards leaned towards commercial paintings, but thereafter he specialised in genre painting with romantic 17th century scenes, period portraits, or Pompeian scenes. He also liked
9-463: The opera and depicted several scenes from popular operas. He was listed as a lithographer and was involved in publishing books and images. He had several daughters and one of them, Carola Crosio, married the famous mathematician Giuseppe Peano (of Peano axioms fame) in 1887. In 1898 he painted the famous Refugium Peccatorum Madonna (i.e. Refuge of Sinners Madonna ) which was later also called Mother Thrice Admirable Madonna . The painting depicts
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