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Holy Family
Domenico Beccafumi Italian
Not on view
This Holy Family, which includes the figure of Saint Michael, was painted late in the artist’s career. It stands alongside a number of other devotional works by Beccafumi that exhibit a comparable freedom of touch and avoid a high level of finish, suggesting that these effects were intentional and repeated. This panel belonged to Duke Cosimo I and then to the Order of Santo Stefano that he founded in Pisa in 1560, an indication that early collectors were open to the more experimental approach visible here.
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