Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch, Copies and the Abbey of Vallombrosa Reconsidered, appendix: 1867-70, the Vallombrosa Arguments in Letters and Publications

An investigation concerning a group of paintings sharing a common motif. The motif is the Madonna with the infants Jesus and Saint John, the Infant Jesus holding a goldfinch. Rapahel's version of the painting, in the Uffizi, is discussed in relation to a similar version of the motif that appeared in Sweden in the 1990's.