Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Beccafumi, Uffizi)

Painting by Domenico di Pace Beccafumi

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is an oil-on-wood painting by the Italian Mannerist painter Domenico Beccafumi, executed c. 1514–1515, now in the Uffizi in Florence.

Description and style

On a dark background emerges the half figure of the Madonna holding the Child in her arms. Jesus holds a small book and raises an arm that shows a muscularity that is entirely inspired by Michelangelo. The elderly St. Joseph and St. John appear from the back. The typical characteristics of Beccafumi's art can be recognized in the sweetness of the shades, the light effects, the various and characterized physiognomies, and the simplification of the forms.

The painting is a tondo and measures 84 cm in diameter.

History

The work and its frame carved with cherubs' heads is first recorded in 1624, when it appears attributed to Beccafumi in a Medici inventory. Of undisputed authorship, Judey (1932) dates it to 1520, Samminiatelli to 1518–19 by its stylistic similarities to his frescoes at the Oratory of the Compagnia di San Bernardino, Francini Ciaranfi to 1514–15 by comparison with the fresco Meeting at the Golden Gate at the ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala.

References

Anna Maria Francini Ciaranfi, Beccafumi, Sadea Editore/Sansoni, Florence, 1967 (Italian)
Anna Maria Francini Ciaranfi, Beccafumi, Sadea Editore/Sansoni, Florence, 1967 (Italian)

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Paintings	Trinity Triptych (1513) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Uffizi) (c. 1514–1515) Bellanti Madonna (c. 1515) Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1515) Saint Paul Enthroned (c. 1515) Marcia (c. 1519) Tanaquil (c. 1519) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Alte Pinakothek) (c. 1521–1522) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Galleria Palatina) (c. 1521–1522) Putti Bearing a Tondo Showing the Drunkenness of Noah (c. 1522–1523) Saint Michael Defeats the Rebel Angels (c. 1524) San Martino Nativity (c. 1524) The Choice of Hercules (c. 1520–1525) Deucalion and Pyrrha (c. 1520–1525) Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor (c. 1528) Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1528) Self-Portrait (c. 1525–1530) The Story of Papirius (c. 1525–1530) Descent into Limbo (c. 1530–1535) Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1539) Sarteano Annunciation (c. 1546)
Related	Oratory of the Compagnia di San Bernardino (frescoes) Palazzo Bindi Sergardi (frescoes) Palazzo Pubblico, Siena San Niccolò al Carmine, Siena Sienese School

Domenico Beccafumi

Paintings

Trinity Triptych (1513)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Uffizi) (c. 1514–1515)
Bellanti Madonna (c. 1515)
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1515)
Saint Paul Enthroned (c. 1515)
Marcia (c. 1519)
Tanaquil (c. 1519)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Alte Pinakothek) (c. 1521–1522)
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Galleria Palatina) (c. 1521–1522)
Putti Bearing a Tondo Showing the Drunkenness of Noah (c. 1522–1523)
Saint Michael Defeats the Rebel Angels (c. 1524)
San Martino Nativity (c. 1524)
The Choice of Hercules (c. 1520–1525)
Deucalion and Pyrrha (c. 1520–1525)
Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist and a Donor (c. 1528)
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (c. 1528)
Self-Portrait (c. 1525–1530)
The Story of Papirius (c. 1525–1530)
Descent into Limbo (c. 1530–1535)
Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1539)
Sarteano Annunciation (c. 1546)

Oratory of the Compagnia di San Bernardino (frescoes)
Palazzo Bindi Sergardi (frescoes)
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
San Niccolò al Carmine, Siena
Sienese School

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