This artist painted an unusual lunette-shaped Annunciation scene with an illuminated lilac background that was changedinto a rectangle by adding night-blue drapery to the corners.
This artist painted an unusual lunette-shaped Annunciation scene with an illuminated lilac background that was changedinto a rectangle by adding night-blue drapery to the corners. This artist notably juxtaposed a vignette in the leftft backgroundof St. Elizabeth leading the child John the Baptist into the hills against the main scene of a Madonna where Jesus reaches downto an angel while standing on the title steps. This artist included the panels Baptism of the People and Birth of the Baptistin a series of grisaille works showing scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist for the Cloister dello Scalzo. This studentof Piero de Cosimo painted the Madonna della Scala and showed Joseph holding an open book while resting his arm on thenamesake sack in his unusual interpretation of the "Rest During the Flight into Egypt" painted in a lunette. This painter ofthe Madonna del Sacco taught Pontormo and in his most famous work depicted Francis and John the Evangelist on either sideof a stone pedestal that is carved with the title mythological monsters. For 10 points, name this Florentine painter of Madonnaof the Harpies, known as "without errors."
This artist painted an unusual lunette-shaped Annunciation scene with an illuminated lilac background that was changedinto a rectangle by adding night-blue drapery to the corners.
Andrea del Sarto