_Borgognone_ (Lombard: about 1455-1523). _See 298._
The nimbus which surrounds the Virgin's head is inscribed in gold
with the words AVE. MARIA. GRATIA. PLENA. DOM. The background is
interesting. On the right is no doubt a faithful view of part of the
old façade of the Certosa of Pavia before it was completed. On the
left are other buildings which appear to be part of a convent, with
Carthusian friars walking in front. This picture is earlier in date
than Borgognone's "Two St. Catherines" (298); it is "more rigid in
style and a capital example of the painter's less ambitious work"
(Catalogue of the Burlington Fine Arts Club's Exhibition, 1898, p.
xxxvii.).