The Madonna and Child Attended by Saints
Medium
Engraving
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.78.2(195)
Tags
Art Historical Context
*The Madonna and Child Attended Saints* is a exquisite engraving from around 1543, created by Giulio Bonasone after a design by the renowned Mannerist painter Parmigianino (Girol Francesco Maria Mazzola).oused in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints, this work captures a tender devotional scene: the Virgin Mary cradling the Christ Child, surrounded by attending saints, a motif central to Renaissance and early Counter-Reformation religious art. igianino, a leading figure of Mannerism—a stylish evolution from High Renaissance ideals—infused his compositions with elongated, graceful...
About the Artist
Giulio Bonasone|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1500–1600
Comment on works: History; Mythology