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Madonna and Child
Creator
Lorenzo di Credi (Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo)Italian Artist · 1456–1536
All works by this person →As head of one of Florence's largest painting workshops, Lorenzo di Credi was a prominent member of the city's artistic life. A goldsmith's son, by 1476 Lorenzo was working in Andrea del Verrocchio's workshop, where he created small panels of the Virgin and Child and saints at prayer. In that workshop, Lorenzo also collaborated with Leonardo da Vinci, whose early work formed the basis for Lorenzo'
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- about 1490–1500
- Medium
- Tempera possibly mixed with oil on panel
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Paintings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
An artist in Lorenzo di Credi's large workshop probably made this painting under the master's direction, adapting elements from various other paintings. The apprentice or journeyman took the composition from an altarpiece begun by another artist and finished by Lorenzo. The two landscapes in the background look quite different, since they derive from two different landscape traditions. The apprentice copied the landscape with a water mill on the right from an altarpiece by Hans Memling, whose Northern Europeans landscape paintings were being imported to Florence around this time, and took the landscape on the left from other works by Lorenzo. The anonymous artist adopted Leonardo da Vinci's early color scheme of delicate light blue, red, and pale violet for the Madonna's garments.
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