\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 In 1605 this painting was in the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, to which it was probably donated by Philip II of Spa
in. Painted by Titian toward the end of his career, the work is signed on the marble on which the Virgin is seated. A landscape forms the backdrop to the scene, an element that first began to appear in Venetian representations of the Madonna and Child