Fra Bartolommeo, 1507 - The Nativity - fine art print

What does the curator team of the Art Institute Chicago state about this artwork painted by Fra Bartolommeo? (© - by Art Institute Chicago - Art Institute Chicago)

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 style, which was characterized by a new, quiet spirituality. The palette of saturated blue, red, and green announces the Holy Family, while the muted tones of the angels’ garments establish an otherworldly presence. Here he treated the Nativity in a traditional, though especially intimate, manner. The Virgin kneels humbly as she gazes at the Christ Child, while Joseph assumes a pose of restrained wonderment, as if suddenly aware of the infant’s divine nature. The family shelters in a rustic stall erected within the ruins of an edifice understood to be the palace of David at Bethlehem. This juxtaposition of architecture symbolizes Christ’s establishment of his new church on the Old Testament order of the Jews. Reinforcing this device is a young tree springing from a remnant of ancient stones directly above the infant.

This classic art piece of art The Nativity was created by the male artist Fra Bartolommeo. The original measures the size: 34 × 24,5 cm (13 3/8 × 9 5/8 in). Oil on panel was used by the artist as the technique for the artpiece. The artpiece belongs to the art collection of Art Institute Chicago. With courtesy of - Art Institute Chicago (licensed - public domain). Additionally, the work of art has the creditline: Ethel T. Scarborough Fund; John G. Searle Family Trust, L. L. and A. S. Coburn, Mr. and Mrs. Lester King, John and Josephine Louis, Samuel A. Marx, Alexander McKay, Chester D. Tripp, and Murray Vale endowment funds; restricted gift of Marilynn Alsdorf, Anne Searle Bent, David and Celia Hilliard, Alexandra and John Nichols, Mrs. Harold T. Martin, Mrs. George B. Young in memory of her husband, and the Rhoades Foundation; gift of John Bross and members of the Old Masters Society in memory of Louise Smith Bross; through prior gift of the George F. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, and Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester collections. On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.4, meaning that the length is 29% shorter than the width. The painter, dominican friar Fra Bartolommeo was a European artist, whose style can primarily be attributed to Renaissance. The European painter was born in the year 1472 in Florence, Firenze province, Tuscany, Italy and passed away at the age of 45 in the year 1517 in Florence, Firenze province, Tuscany, Italy.

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