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| Keywords: Portelli da Loro, Carlo, Virgin, Child, Infant John, and Saint Margaret, 1565-74.jpg Artwork Creator Carlo Portelli Catalogue Entry Said to have hung in the Panciatichi Palace in ÂFlorence the painting is attributed to the FlorenÂtine master Carlo Portelli da Loro The flattened forms the prevalence of profiles and bold silhouettes and the manner in which protagonists avoid the viewer ™s gaze contribute to an aristocratic artificial atmosphere The jarring juxtapositions of colors build on Florentine painting traditions but without the softening shading and suave harmonies of a previous generation These qualities are all hallmarks of the mid-sixteenth-Âcentury Florentine Mannerists The imposing figure of the Virgin holds an overly large baby on her lap the child Jesus who appears about to slide forward His posture prefigures the dead adult Christ cradled on his mother ™s lap in the Pietà Here however the interaction among the figures is more complex Jesus turns backward toward his cousin Saint John … ” …also a miraculously born child … ” …and grasps his staff While Christ was born of a virgin John was the child of the elderly Saint Elizabeth who had long been infertile Margaret an early Christian saint from Antioch is depicted with a dragon from which she reportedly emerged unharmed after having been swallowed Because of this apocryphal tale women in labor invoked her Mary looks toward this advocate for pregnant women reminding the viewer of her own role as the Virgin of Childbirth These references suggest that the painting may have been commissioned as an ex-voto celebrating the birth of an heir Gallery Label Carlo Portelli was a founding member of the Florentine Academy of Design the first European art academy established in 1563 It replaced the older artists ™ guild the Compagnia di San Luca in which artists were considered craftsmen As members of the Academy they became gentlemen of higher social standing and peers of the members of the literary and philosophical academies that flourished in the Renaissance This painting exemplifies the sophisticated Mannerist style that prevailed in sixteenth-century Florence with regal impossibly elongated figures packed into shallow spaces The Virgin and Saint Margaret are fashionably dressed in robes of unusual color harmonies ”pinks peaches acid greens and blues 1565-74 Oil wood panel Size cm 125 5 97 <br> frame Size cm 175 3 143 8 82 5 Institution Princeton University Art Museum European Art object history exhibition history credit line Gift of Harold Godwin Class of 1879 accession number y340 place of creation Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1574 cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd 189 cite web Virgin Child Infant John and Saint Margaret y340 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/34110 Princeton University Art Museum European paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1565 Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1565 European art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1565 Carlo Portelli Paintings of Saint Margaret of Antioch 16th-century paintings of Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John Paintings of Jesus and John the Baptist as children Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
