Virgin and Child, Infant St. John the Baptist and SS Zachariah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Catherine and a Female Saint

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About the work
- Location
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Country: Italy
City: Rome
Place: British Embassy
Thought to date from the 1552-54, this is considered to be one of the earliest examples of a ‘Sacra Conversazione’ painted as a nocturnal scene - a vogue which became popular with other Venetian artists such as Jacopo Bassano, Palma Giovane and Paolo Veronese about a decade later.
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About the artist
Andrea Meldolla, called Schiavone, was born in Zara, Dalmatia, at that time under Venetian jurisdiction; his family came from Meldolla in the Romagna. He was probably living in Venice by the late 1530s, where he died in 1563. He also produced etchings, one of which likewise showed the Christ Child and the infant Baptist, each supported by his kneeling mother.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- statue (as Subject), sculpture (as Subject), book (as subject), devotional, biblical, Renaissance, baby, man, woman, elderly man, robe, family, son, mother, father, child, halo, New Testament, Jesus, saint, Madonna, column, pillar (architectural feature), alcove/niche
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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Andrea Schiavone
- Title
- Virgin and Child, Infant St. John the Baptist and SS Zachariah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Catherine and a Female Saint
- Date
- Probably early 1550s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 122.00 cm, width: 96.50 cm
- Acquisition
- Presented by Viscountess d'Abernon, November 1953
- Provenance
- Collection of Viscountess d'Abernon; by whom presented to the Ministry of Works for display in the British Embassy, Rome, in November 1953
- GAC number
- 2282