Mary with Child and Saints
around 1520/22 | Jacopo Negretti, gen. Palma il Vecchio
In Venice Palma was closely associated with the circle around Giovanni Bellini and Titian. For this depiction of the saints (to the left Catherine and Celestine, to the right John the Baptist and Barbara) gathered around the Madonna, the artist drew on an idea of Bellini to set this assembly in an open landscape instead of a church interior. An innovation is the way the figures are depicted full-length, and with a “humanised” demeanour. The scene which up till that point had been ordered by strict hierarchy thus attains an intimate, almost profane character.
In Venice Palma was closely associated with the circle around Giovanni Bellini and Titian. For this depiction of the saints (to the left Catherine and Celestine, to the right John the Baptist and Barbara) gathered around the Madonna, the artist drew on an idea of Bellini to set this assembly in an open landscape instead of a church interior. An innovation is the way the figures are depicted full-length, and with a “humanised” demeanour. The scene which up till that point had been ordered by strict hierarchy thus attains an intimate, almost profane character.
Artist:
Jacopo Negretti, gen. Palma il Vecchio (um 1480 Serinalta bei Bergamo - 1528 Venedig) DNB
Time:
around 1520/22
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Material/technology:
Poplar wood
Dimensions:
133 x 198 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 60
Provenance
1638-1649 Coll. Hamilton; 1659 Coll. Leopold Wilhelm, Brussels
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