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Domenico Beccafumi
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Birth of the Virgin
Painting ID:: 87508
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Domenico Beccafumi
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c1486-1551
Domenico Beccafumi Gallery
Italian painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker and illuminator. He was one of the protagonists, perhaps even the most precocious, of Tuscan Mannerism, which he practised with a strong sense of his Sienese artistic background but at the same time with an awareness of contemporary developments in Florence and Rome. He responded to the new demand for feeling and fantasy while retaining the formal language of the early 16th century. None of Beccafumis works is signed or dated, but his highly personal maniera has facilitated almost unanimous agreement regarding the definition of his corpus and the principal areas of influence on it. However, some questions concerning the circumstances of his early career and the choices available to him remain unanswered. The more extreme forms of Beccafumis reckless experimentation underwent a critical reappraisal only in the later 20th century. |
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Birth of the Virgin |
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1543(1543)
Medium Oil on wood
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Related Paintings::.
| Genoan hauteur from the Lomelli family, | Cornelis Tromp, | On the Sea Shore | |
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