{"id":3077,"date":"2019-09-25T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/holy-family-with-the-infant-saint-john\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T11:03:40","slug":"holy-family-with-the-infant-saint-john","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/holy-family-with-the-infant-saint-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Family with the infant Saint John"},"content":{"rendered":"

STEFANO PIERI<\/span><\/p>\n

Florence, 1542?-1629<\/span><\/p>\n

Holy Family with the infant Saint John<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

oil on canvas, cm 105×82,5<\/span><\/p>\n

This splendid Florentine canvas from the late Sixteenth century, featuring the Madonna with the Child at her <\/span>breast<\/span>, Saint Joseph on one side and the infant Saint John on the other, which we have previously attributed to Bernardino Poccetti, is on the contrary certainly the work of Stefano Pieri, a contemporary Florentine artist. We would in particular like to thank Alessandro Nesi who has published this painting in a monographic contribution on the artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

The expert has correctly pointed out that this painting echoes the lost Madonna of Porta<\/i> a Pinti<\/i> by Andrea del Sarto, today known thanks to a great number of copies and several preparatory drawings by the artist, \u201cwith the figures that appear, as in the prototype, against a background consisting of a stone cube faceted by a clear-cut shade, in an open-air setting as indicated by a glimpse of the sky\u201d. The reinterpretation of the work by Andrea del Sarto presented by this painting \u201cdoes not fail to demonstrate actual similarities with the manner in which Poccetti approached the painting\u201d of the great Florentine master but, as Nesi underscores, both the physiognomies and the eminently pictorial characteristics of the work reveal unmistakeable analogies with the work of Stefano Pieri. In particular, the expert has stressed the close resemblance with the Madonna in Glory<\/i> of Santa Maria Assunta a Badia in Pacciana (Pistoia) \u2013 one may, in particular, observe the face of the Virgin in the two paintings \u2013 and with the canvas featuring the same motif by the author of this painting, which appeared in the antiquity market of London.<\/span><\/p>\n

Publications:<\/p>\n

\u201cCatalogo Fototeca Fondazione Federico Zeri\u201d, entry no. 38116.<\/p>\n

\u201cUna Sacra Famiglia nel Museo Civico di Prato e un\u2019apertura su Stefano Pieri\u201d, edited by Alessandro Nesi, in \u201cPrato Storia e Arte – n.104\u201d, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Prato, Prato, 2008, pp. 29-39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1441,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[45],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/3077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}