Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Job

religious

Many of the most positive and characteristic qualities of Franciabigio's art are exemplified by the Saint Job altarpiece produced for the high altar of the church of the confraternity of the same dedication to which he himself belonged by 1509 at the latest. It features the Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts Job and John the Baptist and is signed with his monogram and dated 1516. This is a work with concentrated power and monolithic scale and weight of its figures.

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Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Job

About the Artist

Franciabigio

1482 – 1525

Franciabigio (Francesco di Cristofano) was a Florentine painter, a minor master of the High Renaissance style. He was a pupil of Marinotto Albertinelli and collaborated with Andrea del Sarto (on the frescoes in the Annunziata church in Florence), who was the dominant influence on his style, as may be seen in his frescoes of this Convent. His best works are generally considered to be his portraits.

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