Madonna and Child with Sts Joseph and John the Baptist

Private collection

religious

The composition originally was intended to contain only the Virgin and Child, the two side figures were added later by the artist, the elder brother of Titian.

Madonna and Child with Sts Joseph and John the Baptist

About the Artist

Francesco Vecellio

1475 – 1560

Italian painter, part of a family of painters of which the most famous was his younger brother Titian (Tiziano Vecellio). Other members of the family are Orazio Vecellio (c. 1525-1576, son of Titian), Marco Vecellio (1545-1611, son of Francesco), Tizianello (Tiziano Vecellio, c. 1570-1650, son of Marco). In his youth, Francesco was a soldier. As a painter, he was mainly active in 1520-1530s in Cadore. In 1524, he signed an altarpiece for San Vito in Cadore. In 1540s, he painted a polyptych at Candide. In late 1540s he painted the organ shutters of San Salvatore in Venice. He painted an Annunciation for San Nicola di Bari, now in Accademia, Venice.

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