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| Keywords: Rosso Fiorentino - The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist - Walters 371072.jpg This devotional panel depicts the Virgin and Child with St Joseph and the young John the Baptist patron saint of Florence Rosso did not finish the painting and the underdrawing shows through Rosso's original and eccentric style is marked by a strange beauty that calls attention to the painter's ingenuity His figures have large liquid eyes chiseled shapes and elongated limbs and fingers The expressive faces and dynamic brushwork give the painting a high degree of liveliness ca 1521 Renaissance oil on panel Painted surface H 25 x W 16 3/4 x Approx D 1 3/16 in 63 5 x 42 5 x 3 cm accession number 37 1072 29457 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1897 mode of acquisition unknown 1897 catalogue no 286 as Correggio Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Rosso Fiorentino Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings of Holy Family with John the Baptist | ||||
