Purissima, Joseph Stella (1927)
Purissima is one in a series of exquisite large-scale paintings featuring Madonnas painted to resemble early Christian icons set in stylized, paradisiacal Italian landscapes.
Joseph Stella was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.
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