Visitation

Giovanni Francesco da Rimini's Visitation at the Louvre, painted around 1450, depicts the meeting of Mary and Elizabeth from a cycle of the Virgin's life. The Visitation's emotional warmth and theological significance made it one of the most frequently depicted scenes in Marian devotional art Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship It is now held at The Louvre in Paris, one of the world's largest and

The two women embrace before a landscape backdrop, rendered in Giovanni Francesco's competent narrative style with the rich color and detailed setting characteristic of the Emilian school.