Carmignano Visitation

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Visitation
Propositura dei Santi Michele e Francesco, Carmignano
Preparatory drawing, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, n. 461 F

The Carmignano Visitation is a c.1528-1530 oil on panel painting of the

propositura dei Santi Michele e Francesco in Carmignano, Italy.[1]

Detail of the two people in the background identified by art historian Adriano Marinazzo as St. Joseph and Zechariah.[2]

Unmentioned in

Dürer. In the foreground of the painting, we see Mary, St. Elizabeth, and two handmaids. While, on the left, in the background, there are two mysterious people to be identified, perhaps as St. Joseph and Zacharias.[2]

It inspired Bill Viola's video work The Greeting (1995), which for a time was exhibited in a room next to the painting. The painting has appeared in the temporary exhibitions Pontormo e Rosso Fiorentino. Divergenti vie della maniera (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2014) and Bill Viola. Rinascimento elettronico (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2017).

References

  1. ^ a b Marinazzo, Adriano (2006). "La Visitazione del Pontormo". Minuti Menarini. 326: 17–19.