Mary with the child and the juvenile Johannes

Giuliano Bugiardini painted this Mary with Child and Juvenile Saint John around 1514, continuing the Florentine tradition of intimate Madonna compositions. Bugiardini's workshop produced numerous variations on this devotional formula, meeting steady demand from Florentine households and churches. The 1510s were a decade of extraordinary artistic achievement across Europe, shaped by the mature works of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and the Venetian masters.

The panel shows Bugiardini's characteristic soft sfumato with warm tones and the gentle expressions that made his Madonnas popular alternatives to more ambitious but costlier works.