Madonna and Child with St. Anne (Madonna Dei Palafrenieri), 1606, was painted by Caravaggio for the Palafrenieri archconfraternity and briefly hung in St Peter’s Basilica. It shows the child Christ helping Mary to crush a snake, the symbol of sin.
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