Virgin Enthroned with Child, St. Lucy and St. Agatha

This is a work depicting the enthroned Virgin and Child surrounded by Musician Angels and Cherubs: on the lower left are St. Lucy with the palm of martyrdom and the eyeball tray, on the right St.Agatha kneeling on a step and holding pincers.
The canvas is of unknown origin as unknown it is its late Renaissance author (about late 1500s). The most likely hypothesis draws inspiration from the local tradition according to which the painting comes from the old church of St. Lucy. After an exibition of about a century and a half, however, during a restoration of the building in 1760, the painting was dropped off in the convent storeroom where it remained for about one hundred and thirty-five years, when it was rediscovered by Msgr.Ragnini, at that time honorary inspector of Fine Arts, who would become priest of Polverigi a few years later.
Around 1930s it took place the construction of St. Joseph's new church, where the painting was placed together with other furnishings coming from the very ancient St. Agatha's church of Ancona.