Holy Family
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The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in Christian art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally beg
Miniature in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, 1503–1508, by Jean Bourdichon
Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist, Andrea Mantegna, 1495-1500
Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, c. 1500
Joos van Cleve, Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1512, adapting a van Eyck Madonna with Joseph added
Sacra conversazione
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In art, a sacra conversazione, meaning "holy conversation", is a genre developed in Italian Renaissance painting, with a depiction of the Virgin and Child amidst a group of saints in a relatively info
Annalena Altarpiece with predella by Fra Angelico, c. 1438–40 (frame removed), sometimes considered the "first" instance of the sacra conversazione format
Example for a church by Giovanni Bellini, 1505, who also developed types for wealthy homes.
Titian, Madonna and Child with Saints Dorothy and George, 1515–18
Landscape setting with a donor portrait, Palma Vecchio, c. 1519