Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Circle of Agnolo Bronzino
1525–1535
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 81.6 × 57.4 cm (32 1/8 × 22 5/8 in.); Framed: 102.6 × 78.8 × 7.7 cm (40 3/8 × 31 × 3 in.)
- Genre
- oil on panel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
religionoil paintings (visual works)paintingpaint16th Centurywomanoil on panelVirgin and child/Madonna and childpanel paintingoil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniquesItalianfiguresSaintswood (plant material)Christian subjectsreligiousMannerismbiblicalorganic materialchildrenoil paintingwoman with childrenpanel (wood)european paintingChristianitySaint John the Baptist
About
Three examples of this composition are known: an original version and two copies, including this one. All are unfinished. This version and the other copy follow a cartoon, or pattern drawing, based on the original work, and may be from a later date. It is unclear why these replicas were begun and then abandoned, but it was fairly common for Florentine workshops to repeat popular compositions. The paintings’ authorship is much debated, due to the close artistic relationships between Agnolo Bronzino and his Florentine associates like Jacopo Pontormo, whose work can also be seen in this gallery.
