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Date : near 1515
Material : Oil painting on wood
Acquisition : Clyde M. Carr Fund (1965)
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European Painting
Painting
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Italy
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This work is among the earliest known paintings by Correggio, one of the most gifted and influential painters in the Northern Italian region of Emilia. It represents a critical phase in his development, when the artist began to shed his provincial manner by emulating the sophisticated compositions of his contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.
The calm, pyramidal arrangement of the figures in the picture suggests Correggio's awareness of the Florentine Madonna of Raphael. As in Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna of the rocks"(Louvre Museum, Paris), the Virgin's right hand protectively touches the infant Saint John, and the exchange of glances, along with the soft billowing drapery, gives the composition a gentle mobility. Such tender and refined emotions, also derived from Leonardo da Vinci, would become characteristic of Correggio's mature art.
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