Madonna with SS. John the Baptist, Anthony Abbot, Jerome and Stephen
painting by Rosso
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place in Renaissance art
- In Western painting: Mannerist painters in Florence and Rome
His highly unconventional “Madonna with SS. John the Baptist, Anthony Abbot, Jerome and Stephen” for Santa Maria Nuova (1518; Uffizi) displays an aesthetic anarchy bolder than anything by Pontormo, and by the 1520s he was creating works of savage emotionality (e.g., the Volterra “Deposition,” 1521). In 1523 Rosso…
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