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Aureliano Milani, Oil study for "The Miracle of the Madonna of the Fire" c. 1725, 54 1/4 x 38 in. (137.8 x 96.52 cm) (Minneapolis Institute of Arts). The painting portrays a miracle from 1428 when a woodcut of the Virgin Mary (now in the Cathedral of Forlì) survived a devastating fire undamaged.