HEILIGE FAMILIE MIT JOHANNESKNABEN Lot n° 2018

PAOLO DI BERNARDINO DI ANTONIO DEL SIGNORACCIO ('Fra Paolino da Pistoia') 1488 Pistoia - 1547 Ibid HOLY FAMILY WITH SAINT JOHN AS A CHILD Oil on poplar wood(?) (verso panel reinforced with two boards). 83 x 59,5 cm (F. 101 x 78 cm). Signed down in the middle on the baseboard 'ORATE PRO PICTORE F PAVLO PIST'. Verso: On the panel an old label with the number '59' and diverse numbers on the frame. Min. restored, min. damaged. Frame. Paolino di Bernardino di Antonio del Signoraccio, called Paolino da Pistoia, was born in 1488 in Pistoia. He was the son of Antonia di Paolo Maconi and the painter Bernardino di Antonio del Signoraccio, who trained him as a painter in his workshop. At the age of 15 the young Paolino joined the strict Dominican Order as a novice, which will take considerable influence on the painter. In Florence in 1509 he met the eminent painter and monk Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517), who taught him further and was himself a follower of the polarizing repentance preacher Girolamo Savonarola. In the Scuola di San Marco Fra Paolino increasingly dealt with the religious ideas and ideas of reformation Savonarola, who founded the Congregation of San Marco and to which the most commissioned Dominican monasteries belonged to. With the death of Fra Bartolomeo Fra Paolino took over the management of the Scuola di San Marco. Following the reformist demands of the strict Savonarola rule, Fra Paolino devoted himself more and more to the devotional image, whose didactic function is to be underlined by compositional simplification and the use of a more intensive coloring with primary colors. Between 1526 and 1528 Fra Paolino finally moved his flourishing workshop to Pistoia, where he died eventually on August 3 in 1547. The presented painting Holy Family with St. John as a child represents a characteristic example of Fra Paolino's artworks, in which he uses a bold color scheme and whose design of the figure of Mary is reflected in other works (i.a. Adoration of the Magi, sa