GRANACCI, Francesco
(b. 1477, Firenze, d. 1543, Firenze)

Joseph Conducted to Prison

c. 1515
Tempera on wood, 95 x 224 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

A wealthy Florentine patrician commissioned Granacci and other artists to decorate his bedroom with scenes from the story of Joseph. Here, the hero is led to prison, an episode that prefigures the arrest of Christ.