Madonna and Child with Saint Francis by Bernardino Licinio

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Madonna and Child with Saint Francis by Bernardino Licinio (1540)

Licinio was born in Venice to a Lombard family. Although he trained in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini, Licinio seems to have preserved the realism typical of Lombard painting. Knowledge of Licinio’s work was obscured for four centuries because Giorgio Vasari and Carlo Ridolfi confused him with a very different artist, Pordenone, Titian’s chief rival in Venice in the 1530s. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that Licinio’s work began to be clarified. 

In this work, the blessed Virgin Mary is holding the Holy Child, who is motioning towards Saint Francis of Assisi, with two of his fingers stretching up, in a blessing. Saint Francis has a crucifix on his right hand, and receives the Holy Child blessing on his knees.

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