The Deaf-Mute Filippo Viotti's Vision of the Virgin Mary
The Deaf-Mute Filippo Viotti's Vision of the Virgin Mary is an oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia, executed "c." 1534, displayed in the Santuario della Madonna at Paitone in the Province of Brescia, Italy. It is first recorded in 1648 by Carlo Ridolfi, who wrote that "in the church atop Monte Paitone one can still admire a miraculous image of the Virgin which Moretto made at the request of that town for such a miracle". It shows Viotti's vision of the Virgin Mary in  August 1532 and his resulting miraculous cure. It belongs to the artist's mature period but is separate from his style of that time due to its attempt to be as faithful a reproduction of the miracle as possible. It is marked by the Virgin's flowing robes, the very precise artistic rendering and the extremely concrete nature of the figures, where the sacred is totally translated into the real and no obviously miraculous elements are shown.