Italian artist Roberto Virotza 0.1897 m.

This is the painting between the months of paintings in the world and the most popular and reproduction. Roberto was Virotza wants to draw a picture of a symbol of maternity and he called this in the beginning, "Madunana", which means small in Italian mother, was not his mind never to paint a religious image. But over the years people had come to view the painting as an image iconography of the Virgin and her baby. Perhaps this was an additional reason to confuse the fame and popularity gained by permanent.

Model Angelina in her painting. It was at the time in eleven years old. A child who is the younger brother afford a ten months. The painter had seen the girl and child in Venice with winter. She was wearing heavy clothes and take her brother to her chest to protect him from the cold.

Although it was still very young, but they were showing a deep sense of motherhood which embraces child. Virotza was at that time in his forties, was stunned and absolutely Angelina saw the beauty and innocence of her features drawn and decided that she and her brother.

When painting exhibited at the Venice Biennale that year soon gained praise of critics and audience applause and received the award by the painter. Little by little, painting has become something of holiness deal reproduced thousands of times and occasions as birthdays, marriages and other religious and social events. Over the years it emerged, including modified versions added to clouds and halos sacred religious interpretation in order to support her.

Virotza he wants to portray the moment of tenderness and affection between brother and sister, was ordained immortal image speaks to all people Bafoitha and sincerity. The girl in the painting show, carrying her brother sleeping peacefully on her shoulder and stands on the cusp of one of the houses as if begging from his family shelter or food. The most important thing that draws attention in the picture is the face of the girl with the beautiful features of the green and her abaya and cover her head, as well as the golden angelic features of the sleeping child.

After a few years of this painting, Angelina got married at the age of nineteenth and left Italy with her husband to the United States during World War I where settled in California. He lived a comfortable life there and the couple had ten children. In 1929 Angelina husband died suddenly about forty-two years after suffering a sudden illness.

Angelina has struggled after a lot in order to support and care for the large family. But due to fatigue and stress, she had a nervous breakdown and spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric clinic. Her children were taking younger and placed in an orphanage. But they remained faithful to their mother until her death in 1972.

One of the daughters Angelina, and her name Mary, became a nun. And he was pressed by questions about her family's past and the circumstances of the death of her father and her mother mad. As she was wondering about her parents and relatives in Italy and whether one of them is still alive, and what they can tell her about their ancestors.

Mary has already gone to Italy in 1970 and known as the place of two sisters and her mother, no aunts. They both are in the eighties of the aged and were had lost hope in knowing what happened to their sister after he immigrated to America with her husband.

One of the two sisters showed Miri own picture to her mother when she was a girl and told her that her mother was a model of plate painted at the end of the century before last. The Miri has seen copies of the painting, but it did not occur to her to show a woman who could be her mother.

Mary's family in the United States Odhishha discovery and decided to make sure of the story. After research and investigation, they knew the place nephew of the painter who was still alive. Depending on the painter personal diary, compelling evidence emerged that the mother Mary was the woman who is actually appear in the painting. It has been identified as a child with her, a baby brother Giovanni, who was at the age of one year.

During her life, Angelina did not tell her children never ordered the painting and that I preferred to keep it under wraps for unknown reasons. However, her family does not look happy now any painting titled "Madonna street", probably because it indirectly refers to prostitution. The family believes that the original title, a young mother, is considered the best.

Angelina grandchildren and still looking for the original painting without result. They assert that they are not asking for ownership, but they want to see and touch the colors and details by the fact that the painter was known for their grandmother and their grandfather near.

It is said that the original painting disappeared from Italy during World War II and it may be lost during a cruise in the Atlantic Ocean. But there is another view says that the painting may be their way to one of the private art collections in America.a