Stop 6: The Madonna Statue

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The sculptural group Madonna with Child and Saint John the Baptist as a Child was executed by Sebastiano Mariani, known as Sebastiano da Lugano.

The figures are housed within a niche, with the Madonna seated on a throne, her face veiled and crowned with a diadem; she wears a lightly draped gown and holds the Christ Child, whose gaze turns toward the young Saint John.

Saint John the Baptist as a Child is he who proclaimed the coming of the Messiah and baptized him. 

Now go forward to the left and see the tomb.