The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John

Title

[cda 2017]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2017]

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]
[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2017]
[Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, 167, No. 6]

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/

Provenance

from Certosa del Galuzzo near Florence
Galleria degli Uffizi
[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 144, No. 16]

Exhibitions

Hamburg 2003, No. 6
Frankfurt 2007, No. 16

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017

92, 93

Pl. p. 93

Editor	Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara
Title	I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee [Uffizi, Florence]
Place of Publication	Florence, Milan
Year of Publication	2017

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Luca 2017

43, 45, 46

Author	Francesca de Luca
Title	I volti della Riforma nelle collezioni granducali
Publication	in Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of Publication	Florence, Milan
Year of Publication	2017
Pages	42-47

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Hinz 2010 A

Fig. p. 86

Author	Berthold Hinz
Title	Lucas Cranach/ Andrea del Brescianino: Venere tedesca vs. Venere italiana; Lucas Cranach / Andrea del Brescianino: a German Venus vs. an italian Venus
Publication	in Anna Coliva, Bernhard Aikema, eds., Cranach l'altro rinascimento, a different Renaissance, Exhib. Cat. Rome
Place of Publication	Milan
Year of Publication	2010
Pages	86 - 97

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Hinz 2010 B

Author	Berthold Hinz
Title	Aktmalerei bei Cranach. Ein neuer Geschäftszweig
Publication	in Guido Messling, ed., Die Welt des Lucas Cranach. Ein Künstler im Zeitalter von Dürer, Tizian und Metsys, Exhib. Cat. Brussels
Place of Publication	Brussels
Year of Publication	2010
Pages	42-53

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Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007

Editor	Bodo Brinkmann
Title	Cranach der Ältere, [Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 23 Nov 2007 - 17 Feb 2008]
Place of Publication	Ostfildern
Year of Publication	2007

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Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003

41, 167

006

Pl. 6

Editor	Bucerius Kunst Forum, Werner Schade
Title	Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Moderne [Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg]
Place of Publication	Ostfildern-Ruit
Year of Publication	2003

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Posse 1942

Author	Hans Posse
Title	Lucas Cranach d. Ä.
Place of Publication	Vienna
Year of Publication	1942

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1932
Link	http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932

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Research History / Discussion

[…] Dürer's influence is only evident in the head type. The features, with the exception of the almond shaped eyes, correspond exactly with those of the Virgin or Mary Magdalene in the work on parchment in Gotha [DE_SMG_SG14], even the inclination of the head is the same.

The realistic representation of the alpine mountain range in the background at the left is rather unusual for Cranach. But in association with the provenance of the panel from Certosa del Galuzzo near Florence this anomaly may indicate a specific connection with Italy.

[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 144, No. 16]

The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, 1514

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