This panel, now in the Uffizi, which seems of all Cranach's representations of the Virgin to draw most on Italian prototypes, may suggest that the artist visited the country. The subject alone, although not unknown in the North, was a most popular in the Italian early and high renaissance. It
This panel, now in the Uffizi, which seems of all Cranach's representations of the Virgin to draw most on Italian prototypes, may suggest that the artist visited the country. The subject alone, although not unknown in the North, was a most popular in the Italian early and high renaissance. It conveys the impression that the infant St John the Baptist already recognized the divine nature of the relative who was his contemporary and accordingly he responds to him in an attitude of adoration. [...] The hermetic contours of the classical triangular composition lend the event a certain gravitas, as does the traditional palette.
[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 144, No. 16]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017, 93] |
- Production date
- 1514
Production date
1514 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 76.6 x 58 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 76.6 x 58 cm
Dimensions including frame: 91.8 x 73.3 x 9.5 cm
[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2017]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the rocky outcrop in the background at the right: winged serpent with elevated wings facing left and dated above '1514'.
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the rocky outcrop in the background at the right: winged serpent with elevated wings facing left and dated above '1514'.
[cda 2017]
- Owner
- Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
- Repository
- Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
- Location
- Florence
- CDA ID
- IT_GdU_10101
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR050
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/IT_GdU_10101/