Madonna and Child with Saints (Annibale Carracci, 1593)

Madonna and Child with Saints, Madonna and Child Enthroned with the Infant St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria or the San Giorgio Madonna is a 1593 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, originally in the Landini chapel in the church of San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna.

During the 19th century the conservation conditions there worsened and it was moved to the Accademia di Belle Arti for restoration, before being moved to its current home in the then-new Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna[1]..

[1] That idea was refuted by Rudolf Wittkower, but partly supported by Donald Posner, one of the major scholars on Annibale, who felt that surviving preparatory drawings were autograph, but the colouring was partly or wholly down to Massari.

Posner supported this conclusion by reference to a canvas now in Berlin which is clearly connected to the Bologna work and which he attributed to Massari, seeing it as another proof of the student's debt to the master in the Bologna work.

[1] Modern scholarship also holds the Berlin work to be by Annibale's nephew Antonio Carracci rather than Massari, thus representing Antonio drawing on his uncle's work at San Giorgio rather than Massari drawing on his master's.