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Saturday, May 8, 2021

Madonna and Child 🎨by F. Granacci

🌸 🌼 🌺 Happy Mother’s Day 🌼 🌺 🌸
Madonna and Child
by Francesco Granacci
https://78.media.tumblr.com/83dc9a0ede7e3793d18e9cf56c6d1c69/tumblr_p8ni5oGHrh1w6nnito1_1280.jpg
Artist: Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco)
Italian, Villamagna 1469 – 1543 Florence 🇮🇹 Date: ca. 1520
The composition of this picture seems to have been inspired from a sculpture in low relief, most likely by either Donatello or Michelangelo (Granacci had been a fellow pupil with Michelangelo in the workshop of Ghirlandaio.). However, Granacci has made the composition more pictorial by placing the figures in a light-filled room. Another version of the picture by Granacci exists and the same composition was treated by Bacchiacca (Linsky Collection, the Metropolitan Museum). The present picture dates about 1520.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/83dc9a0ede7e3793d18e9cf56c6d1c69/tumblr_p8ni5oGHrh1w6nnito1_1280.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art   European Paintings
Medium: Oil on wood New York, NY
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438432

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