Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
GIULIO DI ANTONIO BONASONE (C. 1498-C. 1580)
The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist
c.1563Etching | 32.5 x 23.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851084
A print after the ‘Holy Family with the Infant Baptist’, a painting now in the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna (inv. no.630) generally attributed to the workshop of Raphael after a design by the master (c.1518). The composition is reproduced here in reverse, with slight alterations in the landscape. Lettered within image at lower right: R. VRBINO IN.VE / IVLIO B.F
Showing the kneeling Virgin supporting the Christ Child on her thighs with both hands; the Child reaches for the Infant Baptist, who kneels down on the left with his left arm being grabbed by St Joseph, who stands behind the group holding the bridle of a donkey; in a landscape.
Creator(s)
Giulio di Antonio Bonasone (c. 1498-c. 1580) (engraver)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
32.5 x 23.1 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Virgin & Child
- Virgin & Child with Saints
- Virgin & Child with Saints-Holy Family
- Virgin & Child with Saints
- Virgin & Child
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Christ Child
- Infancy of Christ
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Zoology
- Animals
- Mammals
- Wild horses
- Donkeys
- Wild horses
- Mammals
- Animals
- Zoology
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp. 275-277, no. A16 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )
