#413 • The Virgin and Child and angels

This large seventeenth-century altarpiece is still accompanied by its original frame, decorated in bands, with motifs widespread in the Tuscan area between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

 

Corradi created this masterpiece by setting himself in antithesis to coeval Baroque and Mannerist painting, for a style inspired by the precepts of decoration and design.

 

The iconography of the Virgin and Child is the traditional one read in the light of Reformed ideas, while the forms recall the painter's mature style: accurate drawing, great compositional balance and soft chiaroscuro in line with post-Tridentine directives.