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Madonna and Child with Saints
Creator
Fra Bartolommeo (Baccio della Porta)Italian Artist · 1472–1517
All works by this person →Fra Bartolommeo's art reflects the development of Florentine art from the detailed realism of the 1400s to the idealized grandeur, compositional simplicity, and rhythmic movement of the High Renaissance style of the 1500s. The purity of lines and volumes in one of his paintings inspired the young Raphael. A mule driver's son, the young artist born as Baccio della Porta studied with a local painter
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- 1510–1513
- Medium
- Black chalk with traces of white chalk
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In 1510 the Florentine republic commissioned Fra Bartolommeo to paint an altarpiece, *Madonna and Child with Saints,* for one of the long walls of the council chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio. Battle scenes painted by rivals Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were supposed to flank the altarpiece, though only Leonardo ever began his painting. Fra Bartolommeo never finished his monochrome altarpiece either, though he was still working on it in 1515. Fra Bartolommeo used chalk to softly indicate areas of light and shadow as well as to work out other elements of the unified composition, such as the placement of figures and their various poses. His concern with chiaroscuro shows Leonardo's influence.
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