Madonna and Child

ARTIST: Museum Religious Art Classics

ARTWORK NARRATIVE:

Artist: Bachiacca – c. 1520

Bachiacca was a friend and associate of Andrea del Sarto and collaborated with him and Francesco Granacci on a memorable series of paintings for a bedroom in Florence. This devotional painting shows the Madonna and Child amidst a selection of carefully depicted flowers—jasmine, cornflower, rose, and sweetbriar—all of which were symbols of the Virgin or Christ in the Renaissance. The composition, also the basis for paintings by Granacci, one of which is exhibited in this gallery, was inspired either by a relief sculpture by Donatello or, more likely, a drawing by Michelangelo, with whom both painters were acquainted.

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