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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Circle of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572)
c. 1530
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- 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.)
- Culture
- Florence
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
