{"data":{"id":23972,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/23972","is_boosted":true,"title":"Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAACYPCko7HG8pEUMtIkU4IzxEGiBQNkZGGXBCM25hOGNfTn5ZU0RmWnNlU3t7XYdLP4hiS4J6YImtqq\/HzAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAUR4BE4U9EkkrFATIQ8hDIIQAgAOw==","width":3968,"height":5096,"alt_text":"Vividly colored painting of Virgin Mary with baby Jesus and baby John the Baptist."},"main_reference_number":"1965.688","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1510,"date_end":1520,"date_display":"c. 1515","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Correggio (Antonio Allegri; Italian, 1489\u20131534)","place_of_origin":"Italy","description":"<p>In this intimate devotional panel, the young Correggio demonstrated his own evolving style while also assimilating lessons from other great painters of his era. The work\u2019s pyramidal grouping of figures reflects the style of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/36321\/raphael\">Raphael<\/a>, while their soft outlines and the Virgin\u2019s enigmatic smile recall the work of Leonardo da Vinci. The landscape in the background adds to the painting\u2019s charm and demonstrates the artist\u2019s knowledge of Northern European precedents. The gentle sensuousness of the figures and the tenderness they show one another, however, are unique to Correggio. The artist used color, light, and shadow to bathe the image in a gentle glow, with skin and fabrics taking on a velvety texture.<\/p>\n<p>Correggio lived and worked in the northern Italian city of Parma, executing a body of work that is remarkable for its inventiveness and sophistication given his remove from the artistic centers of Rome, Florence, and Venice. This small panel is in his earliest style, but its idyllic quality presages the radiant ceiling frescoes of Correggio\u2019s maturity, especially those in Parma\u2019s cathedral (1526\u201330).<\/p>\n","short_description":"This intimate devotional panel, an early work by Antonio da Correggio, reveals the young artist's evolving style. The distant landscape demonstrates his awareness of Northern European precedents, and the figural composition references the manner of Raphael, while its soft outlines recall Da Vinci. The gentle sensuousness of the figures and the tenderness they show one another, however, are unique to Correggio.","dimensions":"64.2 \u00d7 50.2 cm (25 1\/4 \u00d7 19 3\/4 in.); Framed: 79.4 \u00d7 63.9 \u00d7 8.3 cm (31 1\/4 \u00d7 25 1\/8 \u00d7 3 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":50,"height":64,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":8,"width":63,"height":79,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on panel","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Clyde M. Carr Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"C.P. Landon, Galerie de M. Massias, ancien r\u00e9sident de France \u00e0 Carlsruhe... (Paris, 1815), p. 17, pl. 6. \n\n\"Accessions of Canadian and American Museums, October-December 1965,\" Art Quarterly 29 (1966), p. 71, cover ill. \n\nMyron Laskin, Jr., \"A New Correggio for Chicago,\" Burlington Magazine 107, (1966), p. 190. \n\nJohn Maxon, \"Correggio's Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, \" Art News 66, no. 2 (1966), pp. 31-32, 64-65 (color ill.). \n\n\"The Sensual Innocent,\" Time Magazine 87, no. 14 (1966), pp. 78-79 (color ill.). \n\nJohn Maxon, \"Some Recent Acquisitions,\" Apollo 84 (1966), p. 221, fig. 3. \n\n\"La Chronique des arts,\" Gazette des beaux arts ser. 6, 69 (1967), suppl. no. 1177, p. 69, no. 253 (ill.). \n\nBernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. I (London, 1968), p. 92. \n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 93, no. 30 (ill.). \n\nAlberto Bevilacqua and Arturo Carlo Quitavalle, L'opera completa del Correggio ( Milan, 1970), no. 30 (ill.). \n\nD. A. Brown, \"Correggio's Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John,\" The Art Instite of Chicago Museum Studies 7 (1972), pp. 7-33, fig. 1. \n\nBurton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 56, 3336, 571. \n\nCecil Gould, The Paintings of Correggio (Ithaca, NY, 1976), pp. 43, 46, 47, 58, 169, 199, pl. 16\n\nA. H. Zerner and A. C. Quintavalle, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Corr\u00e8ge (Paris, 1977), pp. 86, 93, no. 29, no. 30.\n\n The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago, 1978), p. 47, no. 10 (color ill.). \n\nD. A. Brown, The Young Correggio and His Leonardesque Sources (New York and London), 1981, pp. 68-69, 74-80, 98, 194-96, no. 11, fig. 18. \n\nImportant Old Master Paintings and Discoveries of the Past Year, exh. cat. ( New York, Piero Corsini, Inc., 1986), pp. 18, 21, no. 4, under no. 4.\n\nCecil Gould in The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, exh. cat. (Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1986), under no. 28. \n\nCecil Gould, \"A Major New Attribution to the Young Correggio,\" Artibus et historiae 18 (1988), p. 9.\n\n Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1988), p. 20 (color ill.). \n\nP. Piva, Correggio giovane e l'affresco retrovato de San Benedetto  in Polirone (Turin, 1988), pp. 155, 166, 168, 173, pl. xiv. \n\nChristopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Princeton, N.J., 1993), pp. 67-72, (ill.).\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 27 (ill.).\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 62, 258, no. 37, (ill.).","exhibition_history":"The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 \u2013 January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola\u2019s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.","provenance_text":"Baron Nicholas Massias, Paris, by 1815; sold Laneuville and Lacoste, Paris, December 13 or following, 1825 (originally scheduled for December 14, 1824), no. 27, as Bernardo Luini, for Fr 4,000 [according to Landon 1815, p. 17].  Private collection, Germany [statement from Wildenstein and correspondence of John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago Archives; Maxon recounted that the Milanese collector cited below bought the picture sometime around the beginning or end of World War II at an unidentified public auction in Germany as Italian, first quarter of the sixteenth century].  Minari collection, Milan [statement of Wildenstein (without reference to collector's name) and Maxon papers, The Art Institute of Chicago]. Wildenstein, New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1965.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1966,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":51.7589,"color":{"h":9,"l":37,"s":77,"percentage":0.034283748955331456,"population":313},"latitude":41.87930241103,"longitude":-87.6234209910035,"latlon":"41.87930241103,-87.623420991003","is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 205","gallery_id":2147483635,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":40500,"artist_title":"Antonio da Correggio","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[40500],"artist_titles":["Antonio da Correggio"],"category_ids":["PC-10","PC-831"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe","Essentials"],"term_titles":["oil on panel","16th Century","painting (image making)","oil paint (paint)","religion","Italian","paint","wood (plant material)","oil painting","painting","painting techniques","panel painting","painting","european painting","panel (wood)","women","children","mothers","Christianity","Christian subjects","Jesus","Saint John the Baptist","Virgin Mary","Virgin and child\/Madonna and child"],"style_id":"TM-13772","style_title":"16th Century","alt_style_ids":[],"style_ids":["TM-13772"],"style_titles":["16th Century"],"classification_id":"TM-80","classification_title":"oil on panel","alt_classification_ids":["TM-14164","TM-10387","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_ids":["TM-80","TM-14164","TM-10387","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_titles":["oil on panel","Italian","paint","painting","european painting"],"subject_id":"TM-11421","alt_subject_ids":["TM-8735","TM-10118","TM-12350","TM-12372","TM-8767","TM-12446","TM-12339","TM-8808","TM-8779"],"subject_ids":["TM-11421","TM-8735","TM-10118","TM-12350","TM-12372","TM-8767","TM-12446","TM-12339","TM-8808","TM-8779"],"subject_titles":["religion","women","children","mothers","Christianity","Christian subjects","Jesus","Saint John the Baptist","Virgin Mary","Virgin and child\/Madonna and child"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-2431","TM-3644"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-2431","TM-3644"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","wood (plant material)","panel (wood)"],"technique_id":"TM-3891","alt_technique_ids":["TM-4273","TM-14210","TM-3971","TM-3975"],"technique_ids":["TM-3891","TM-4273","TM-14210","TM-3971","TM-3975"],"technique_titles":["painting (image making)","oil painting","painting","painting techniques","panel painting"],"theme_titles":["Essentials"],"image_id":"d63b9402-c42b-cce3-aa63-6d213ad621cd","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":["d702312a-39c5-fe3d-d16d-a9485a56affc"],"sound_ids":["d702312a-39c5-fe3d-d16d-a9485a56affc"],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_boosted":"Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist","suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1965.688"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist"],"weight":12457,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-04-23T11:19:29-05:00","updated_at":"2026-08-27T15:11:27-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-06T05:47:27-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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