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Date : between 1560 and 1565
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Wilson L. Mead Fund (1968)
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European Painting
Painting
Area related
Italy
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Although through most of his career Jacopo da Ponte remained in his native Bassano del Grappa, on the mainland territory of the Venetian Republic, he employed the rich colors characteristic of contemporary painters in Venice. Early in his maturity, he was also influenced by Mannerist artists such as Parmigianino (1503-1540), who led a reaction against the classical principles of the High Renaissance. As a result, Bassano tended to use elongated, serpentine figures set against abstracted architectural elements, as he does in this work.
The artist often created several variants on a theme. There are, for instance, two other versions of the "Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist" and an earlier, vertical variant is believed to be the earliest of Bassano's works on this subject and the Art Institute version to be the latest; they were probably separated by an interval of some fifteen years.
At top left, on the wall behind the Virgin, is the Latin inscription "JACs APOTE/BASS.P.," meaning "Jacopo da Ponte of Bassano painted this".
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