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Madonna and Child between Saints John the Baptist and Magdalene

Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Vecchio

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Red Palace

Red Palace

Via Garibaldi, 18, Genoa

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The painting is one of the masterpieces of Palma il Vecchio, an exponent of Venetian art of the early sixteenth century. The artist was trained in Venice at the Giovanni Bellini school and, later, was influenced by the stylistic demands of Giorgione and Tiziano. In this Sacra Conversazione datable to around 1520-1522, the half-length figures are perfectly inserted in the luminous landscape of the background, pervaded by a clear and diffused light typical of Venetian painting between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The symmetry with which the characters on the sides of the Virgin are arranged is a clear reference to Bellini, but the sumptuousness of the undulating drapery, as well as the solemnity of the attitudes of the Magdalene and the Baptist and the well-articulated and unconstrained space, reveal an autonomous maturity of the painter's style in a fully Renaissance sense. To underline the splendid color scheme of the work, in which the ultramarine blue of the Virgin's mantle prevails over the blue with gray iridescence of Mary Magdalene's dress, in turn in harmonious counterpoint with the gray tunic and olive green mantle of the Baptist. The tender gazes of the women, the soft curls of the Baptist's hair, the accuracy of details such as the burgundy velvet sleeve of the Magdalene's right arm, the excellent quality of the texture across the entire surface of the painting, these and other aspects make of this work an excellent example of the painting of Palma.
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Title: Madonna and Child between Saints John the Baptist and Magdalene

Author: Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Vecchio

Date: 1520-1522

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Displayed in: Red Palace

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