Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Mary Magdalene

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Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Mary Magdalene (1508-1512) by Palma Vecchio

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Mary Magdalene is a 1508-1512 oil on panel painting by Palma Vecchio. It was in archduke Leopold William of Austria's collection in Brussels from 1653 to 1662 before being moved to the Imperial Galleries in Vienna (now the Kunsthistorisches Museum), before finally being exchanged for another work with the Uffizi in Florence in 1793, where it is now inventory number 950.

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It was stored for safety in the villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano from 1940 to 1942, before being moved from bomb shelter to bomb shelter until 1944. [1] The German occupiers then seized it and other works from the Uffizi, taking them to the Castel Giovo in the Province of Bolzano, intending to take all the works they had looted from the Uffizi to Germany. It was returned to the Palazzo Pitti in 1945 then back to the Uffizi in 1951. It was restored in 1988 and 2003–2004. [2]

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References

  1. (in Italian) Andrea Pestelli, La "Primavera" del Botticelli nel castello di Montegufoni durante la Guerra (1942-45), Amazon, 2017, p. 5
  2. Philip Rylands, Palma il Vecchio: l'opera completa, Milan, A. Mondadori, 1988 (Italian)

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