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BECCAFUMI, Domenico

BECCAFUMI, Domenico The Holy Family with Young Saint John dfg oil painting on canvas
The Holy Family with Young Saint John dfg
Painting ID::  4994
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BECCAFUMI, Domenico The Holy Family with Young Saint John dfg oil painting on canvas



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  BECCAFUMI, Domenico
  Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1486-1551 Domenico was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist.[1] In 1509 he traveled to Rome, but soon returned to Siena, and while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation (Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial. In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating the neighboring Florentine school. There are medieval eccentricities, sometimes phantasmagoric, superfluous emotional detail and a misty non-linear, often jagged quality to his drawings, with primal tonality to his coloration that separates him from the classic Roman masters.
  The Holy Family with Young Saint John dfg
  around 1530 Oil on panel, diameter 84 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

  Related Paintings::.
  | Lady of the Flowers | Young man in a Landscape or The Guitarreor | Self-Portrait at the Easel |


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