BECCAFUMI, Domenico
(b. ca. 1486, Castel Monaperto, d. 1551, Siena)

The Holy Family with Young Saint John

c. 1530
Oil on panel, diameter 84 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

A very important Sienese painter who, through the influence of Michelangelo, and of Leonardo and Raphael through the medium of Sodoma, and not without a knowledge of the northerners, achieves a highly original stylistic conception, which is among the most fanciful of the whole Mannerism. It is based upon a liquid colouring which melts under the impact of light and upon an undulating and serpentine linearism.




© Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Krén and Daniel Marx.