Francesco Granacci, 1506 - Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist - fine art print

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These two pictures belong to a series that illustrates episodes from the life of Saint John the Baptist, who preached about the coming of Jesus. Architecture and landscape are used to frame and divide the individual scenes, enabling the viewer to follow the story from the miraculous Annunciation of his conception to his father Zacharias (top picture, left background) to (in the bottom) his preaching in the wilderness. Painted to decorate a room in the Tornabuoni family palace in Florence, they are by more than one artist. Figures in the scene of the preaching have reminded some scholars of the work of Michelangelo, who was a friend of Granacci’s (they had been fellow pupils in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio), and he may have been involved in some capacity.

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Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist is an artwork created by Francesco Granacci in 1506. The 510 year old piece of art had the following size: 30 9/16 x 59 1/2 in (77,6 x 151,1 cm). Tempera, oil, and gold on wood was applied by the Italian painter as the medium of the work of art. Nowadays, this work of art belongs to the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Gwynne Andrews, Harris Brisbane Dick, Dodge, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, funds from various donors, Ella Morris de Peyster Gift, Mrs. Donald Oenslager Gift, and Gifts in memory of Robert Lehman, 1970 (public domain license). : Purchase, Gwynne Andrews, Harris Brisbane Dick, Dodge, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, funds from various donors, Ella Morris de Peyster Gift, Mrs. Donald Oenslager Gift, and Gifts in memory of Robert Lehman, 1970. The alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a side ratio of 2 : 1, meaning that the length is two times longer than the width. The painter Francesco Granacci was an artist, whose artistic style can be classified as High Renaissance. The High Renaissance artist lived for a total of 74 years and was born in the year 1469 and died in 1543.

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