The Virgin Adoring the Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, Sellaio was a pupil of Filippo Lippi, and several features of the present painting, such as the rays surrounding the Christ Child, are also common to Lippi's paintings of the same subject. The tree stumps in the landscape are a reference to Matthew 3:10 ("And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.").
Artwork Details
- Title: The Virgin Adoring the Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
- Artist: Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) (Italian, Florence 1441/42–1493 Florence)
- Date: late 1480s
- Medium: Tempera and gold on wood
- Dimensions: Arched top, 41 x 27 in. (104.1 x 68.6 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941
- Object Number: 41.100.10
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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