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Holy Family in a Landscape,
1520–30
Bonifazio de' Pitati, Italian, Venice, 1487–1553
y1990-68
The Holy Family rests in a landscape with Saint John the Baptist. The background is an example of landscape painting in Venice. A renewed interest in the natural world spread throughout Europe during the Renaissance, and landscape painting came into its own in the North around 1520. It was in Venice, however, that the effects of color and light were studied and reproduced most systematically.
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Title
Holy Family in a Landscape
Dates
1520–30
Maker
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
66.2 × 102.2 cm (26 1/16 × 40 1/4 in.)
frame: 98.1 × 132.4 × 7.9 cm (38 5/8 × 52 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
y1990-68
Culture
Type
Materials
Private collection, London (until 1979); Colnaghi, London (1979–80; sold to French and Company); French and Company, New York (1980–90; sold to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Old master paintings and drawings: [exhibition] Colnaghi, June 19-August 3, 1979, (London: P. & D. Colnaghi, 1979)., no. 56 (xerox of entry in files)
- Simonetta Simonetti, "Profilo di Bonifacio de' Pitati", Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte 15 (1986): p. 83-134., p. 96-97, no. 3
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., pp. 62–63 (illus.)
