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Fresco of the Madonna, in Piazza della Rotonda in Rome, Ialy.

Affresco della Madonna in Piazza della Rotonda a Roma. The subject of the image is the Immaculate Conception, embellished with a quote from the Canticle of Canticles, which appears at the bottom of the painting `Tota pulchra es, amica mea, et macula non est in te` - `You are all beautiful, Mary, and the original stain is not in you.` Tota pulchra es, is an old Catholic prayer, written in the fourth century. It is one of the five antiphons for the psalms of Second Vespers for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The title means `You are completely beautiful` referring to the Virgin Mary. It speaks of her immaculate conception. It takes some text from the book of Judith, and other text from Song of Songs. Rome, Italy, Europe