These two tiny panels form a diptych representing the Virgin and Child and Saint John the Baptist and are united by the same background landscape. The Baptist can be identified thanks to his traditional attributes - the leather tunic, the book, the lamb, the cross - and by the inscription
These two tiny panels form a diptych representing the Virgin and Child and Saint John the Baptist and are united by the same background landscape. The Baptist can be identified thanks to his traditional attributes - the leather tunic, the book, the lamb, the cross - and by the inscription 'There was a man sent from God, whose name was John', from the Gospel (John 1:6). [...]
Despite their small dimensions, the two panels are so full of details, they should be looked at through a magnifying glass. Cranach accurately describes the fur of the Baptist's tunic [...]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Museo Poldi Pezzoli, revised 2013] |
- Production dates
- 1550 - 1552
about 1550
Production dates
1550 - 1552 | [Museo Poldi Pezzoli, revised 2013] |
about 1550 | [Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, No. 60] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 18.3 x 12.6 x c. 0.5 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 18.3 x 12.6 x c. 0.5 cm
Dimensions including frame: 31.8 x 43 cm
[Museo Poldi Pezzoli, revised 2013]
- Signature / Dating
None
- Inscriptions and Labels
- at the bottom: '[FU]IT HOMO MISSUS A DEO CUI NOMEN ERAS JOHANNES'
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- at the bottom:
'[FU]IT HOMO MISSUS A DEO CUI NOMEN ERAS JOHANNES'
- Owner
- Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano
- Repository
- Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano
- Location
- Milan
- CDA ID
- I_MPP_1037
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/I_MPP_1037/