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The Nativity 1507

by Fra Bartolomeo

The young Baccio della Porta came under the spell of the charismatic Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola, joining his monastic order as Fra (Friar) Bartolommeo in 1500 and forsaking his painting career for several years. Returning to painting in 1504, he looked to the most lyrical and harmonious recent works of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo to form his own s...

Size:: 34 × 24.5 cm (13 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Medium:: Oil on panel
Credit:: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
More:: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184371/the-nativity

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