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- Andrea del Sarto (1486 - 1530)
- The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist
- Italy
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- Date: c. 1517–9
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Image size: 106.5 x 81.3 cm
- Inv: P9
- Location: Sixteenth Century Gallery
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- The Virgin supports the standing Christ who, with his outstretched right hand, blesses the infant St John the Baptist at the lower left. St John is already dressed in animal skins of the kind he will wear when preaching in the desert. Behind him are two angels. In the landscape to the right an episode from the Fioretti (Little Flowers) of St Francis is illustrated, with St Francis kneeling before an angel playing a viol. The picture demonstrates Sarto’s increasingly mannerist elegance in its colouring, complex artificial composition and elegantly refined poses, which nevertheless convey emotion with great immediacy. Numerous related versions and copies attest to the popularity of the composition.