1490 (ca.), Luca Signorelli, Holy Family -- Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
This tondo, which entered the Uffizi from the Camera della Comunità (or Chamber of Municipalities) in 1802, is mentioned by Giorgio Vasari as hanging in the Audience Chamber of the Palagio di Parte Guelfa. Its circular shape, considerable size and subject matter - the Virgin and Child with St. Joseph - are all typical features of the kind of religious paintings commissioned for the offices of the Florentine civic administration in the Renaissance to implore divine protection and mercy.
1490 (ca.), Luca Signorelli, Holy Family -- Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
This tondo, which entered the Uffizi from the Camera della Comunità (or Chamber of Municipalities) in 1802, is mentioned by Giorgio Vasari as hanging in the Audience Chamber of the Palagio di Parte Guelfa. Its circular shape, considerable size and subject matter - the Virgin and Child with St. Joseph - are all typical features of the kind of religious paintings commissioned for the offices of the Florentine civic administration in the Renaissance to implore divine protection and mercy.