Virgin and Child with Infant John the Baptist

Piero di Cosimo painted this Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist around 1489, bringing his characteristically personal touch to the standard Florentine devotional format. Where most Florentine painters treated the subject with conventional sweetness, Piero's versions have a distinctive atmospheric quality and emotional depth that set them apart. Piero di Cosimo was one of the most original and eccentric painters in late fifteenth-century Florence, developing a mythological imagination quite unlike any of his contemporaries.

Oil on panel with Piero di Cosimo's distinctive warm palette and atmospheric effects. The intimate devotional composition shows his characteristic blend of naturalism and poetic sensibility.