The Virgin and the Child with Angels

Giovan Battista di Jacopo

Hermitage Museum

 
DESCRIZIONE:

Rosso Fiorentino was one of the first of the Florentine Mannerists, whose work was characterized by a departure from the principles of the classic style of the High Renaissance and a desire to express the impermanent and the disharmonious. Yet in formal artistic device, such as the resolution of the composition and the plastic expression of form, the Mannerists retained many links with the Renaissance.

In this picture our attention is immediately caught by the lack of any emotional link between the figures: even Mary does not look at Christ as He presses to her knees. Christ here is not a baby, as dictated by tradition, but a toddler of around five years old. The location is also indeterminate: Mary floats on a throne composed of the figures of angels, and she is lit by fantastical blue rays which are replaced towards the bottom by a sinister red light. The painting leaves an impression of duality both in lighting and the treatment of the figures. The bodies of some angels are treated with tangibility typical of Michelangelo, while the others are ghostly transparent in their incorporeity.
MADONNA COL BAMBINO ● ROSSO FIORENTINO ● GIOVAN BATTISTA DI JACOPO
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LE OPERE

Allegoria della salvezza con la Vergine e il Bambi Allegoria della salvezza con la Vergine e il Bambi 1521 | Olio su tavola | 119 x 161 cm. Ritratto di Giova Uomo che legge una Lettera Ritratto di Giova Uomo che legge una Lettera 1518 | Olio su legno | 66 x 85 cm. Matrimonio della Vergine Matrimonio della Vergine 1523 | Olio su tavola Assunzione Assunzione 1513 | Affresco Madonna col Bambino Madonna col Bambino 1522 | Olio su tavola | 75 x 111 cm. Deposizione sulla croce Deposizione sulla croce 1521 | Olio su tavola | 196 x 375 cm. Pietà Pietà 1537 | Olio su tavola | 159 x 125 cm.
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