Gioacchino Bombelli depicted Our Lady standing on a cloud , as replacement for an
altar painting by Lanfranco which was damaged by fire.
Curiously he did
so in a Church which was known as "della Concezione" rather than "Immacolata Concezione".
A question of dates , says our Professor of Fine Arts.
She's Professor Breda
Ennis who while describing this painting also fills us in on timely facts relating
to the Franciscan inspired Dogma of the Immaculate Conception .