# The Holy Family with Four Saints and a Female Donor

- By: Antonio Rimpatta (Italian, documented from 1509–died 1531/32)
- Date: c. 1510
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 125.3 × 120 cm (49 3/8 × 47 1/4 in.); Framed: 147.4 × 141.7 × 10.2 cm (58 × 55 3/4 × 4 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Clyde M. Carr Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111250)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c3c0a6f8e2fb99229c30a101ad4c209a.jpg
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Here, the infant Jesus sits in a central position on the lap of his mother, Mary, with Saint John the Evangelist nearby, holding a golden chalice. The half-length representation of a kneeling woman at the bottom right represents the donor who commissioned the painting, likely for a small church or private chapel. This type of composition, with several figures grouped around the Holy Family and a donor present, is known as a sacra conversazione (sacred conversation) and was popular in 16th-century Italy.

Antonio Rimpatta was probably born in Bologna before relocating to Naples. He traveled frequently throughout central Italy, where he absorbed the characteristics of a variety of painters, resulting in an eclectic style.

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