The Holy Family with Saint

Luca Signorelli's Holy Family with Saint, painted around 1490 and now in the Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence, is a devotional composition of the extended Holy Family. Signorelli's treatment of family groups combines his powerful figure style with an unusual warmth that emerges in his more intimate compositions. The work dates to his productive decade of the 1490s, before his culminating achievement in the monumental Last Judgment frescoes at Orvieto Cathedral.

Signorelli renders the Holy Family group with his characteristic firm drawing and strong modeling, bringing physical solidity and warmth to the intimate devotional composition in his distinctive manner.