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Painting by Pietro Perugino
Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria |
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Artist |
Perugino |
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Year | 1495-1500 |
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Medium | oil on panel |
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Dimensions | 81 cm × 63 cm (32 in × 25 in) |
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Location | Louvre, Paris |
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Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria is a c.1495 oil on panel painting by
Perugino of the
Madonna and Child with
John the Baptist and
Catherine of Alexandria. It is now in the
Louvre in Paris.
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It was produced using the same cartoon as
Madonna and Child with Two Saints (
Kunsthistorisches Museum) and
Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (
Städel Museum), with very little variation between the three works. The face of the Madonna is based on Perugino's wife
Chiara Fancelli
References
Bibliography
- (in Italian) Vittoria Garibaldi, Perugino, in Pittori del Rinascimento, Scala, Florence, 2004
ISBN
888117099X
- (in Italian) Pierluigi De Vecchi, Elda Cerchiari, I tempi dell'arte, volume 2,
Bompiani, Milan, 1999.
ISBN
88-451-7212-0
- (in Italian) Stefano Zuffi, Il Quattrocento, Electa, Milan, 2004.
ISBN
8837023154