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Virgin and Child Flanked by Sts Benedict and Quentin

1500 · Musée du Louvre, Paris

religious

The model of the Sacred Conversation, developed in the 1470s by Giovanni Bellini and Antonello da Messina, became widely used outside the Veneto, reaching Emilia and Romagna, and continued until the early sixteenth century. In his one known altarpiece, Marmitta followed this model.

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Virgin and Child Flanked by Sts Benedict and Quentin

About the Artist

Francesco Marmitta

1460 – 1504

Italian illuminator, painter and gem-engraver. According to Vasari, Marmitta lived in Parma and, after training as a painter, became an engraver of gemstones, 'closely imitating the ancients'. Although no signed work is known, he is mentioned in verses prefacing a manuscript of Petrarch's Canzoniere and Trionfi.

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