The Holy Family with St. John the Baptist

ca. 1522 (Renaissance)

80.2 cm 101 cm 2.8 cm

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The Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child on a rocky outcropping partially covered by her heavy mantle. The Child stands upright in triumphant “contrapposto," a pose derived from ancient Roman sculpture in which the figure's weight is shifted onto one leg. He wraps one arm around...

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Paoletti, Florence, around 1910 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Luigi Grassi, Florence [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase [through Bernard Berenson]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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