Excerpt from Francia's Masterpiece: An Essay on the Beginnings of the Immaculate Conception in Art Description of the Picture - Inscriptions on the Scrolls - Its inspiring Source - T he date 1480 The probable date - The Picture taken for a Coronation - Milanesi's view - Crowe and Caval caselle's view - The View of Canon Angelo Bandini and others - The Lucca Picture undoubtedly the older. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.