Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Sebastian (Pala Casio)

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The painting was executed for the Chapel Casio de Santa Maria della Misericordia, near Bologna. The two donors are Giacomo Marchione de Pandolfi da Casio and his son, Girolamo Casio (1464-1533), a poet from Bologna, who was portrayed by Boltraffio several times.

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Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Sebastian (Pala Casio)

About the Artist

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

1467 – 1516

Italian painter, the the best of Leonardo 's Milanese followers. Most of his works are in Milan, but others are in Berlin, Budapest, Cambridge Mass. (Fogg), Florence (Uffizi), London (National Gallery), New York (Metropolitan Museum), Paris (Louvre and Jacquemart-André) and Philadelphia (Johnson). An interesting portrait by him is at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, and another, in Washington (National Gallery of Art), may have been worked on by Leonardo.

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