麦当娜和孩子与圣弗朗西斯和杰罗姆 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	麦当娜和孩子与圣弗朗西斯和杰罗姆
品名（英）	Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome
入馆年号	1975年，1975.1.97
策展部门	罗伯特·雷曼典藏系列（Robert Lehman Collection）
创作者	Francesco Francia【1447 至 1517】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1509 - 公元 1518
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	29 1/2 × 22 1/2 英寸 (74.9 × 57.2 厘米) Framed: 39 3/8 × 32 5/8 英寸 (100 × 82.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅由博洛尼亚艺术家弗朗切斯科·弗朗西亚（Francesco Francia）创作的圣母和孩子的画作于1944年被罗伯特·雷曼（Robert Lehman）收购，是他著名的虔诚画作的一个例子。圣母穿着大片彩色帷幔，将圣婴抱在膝盖上。孩子拿着一对樱桃，指的是基督的牺牲宝血。圣母的右边是圣弗朗西斯，穿着传统的补音和厚重的修道院长袍。另一边的大胡子人物很可能是圣杰罗姆。背景是树木和山丘，它们将圣人置于尘世的环境中，使观众更容易接近和平易近人。弗朗西亚在转向绘画之前接受了成功的金匠培训并工作，并在栏杆上的签名中表明自己是金匠（FRANCIA AURIFABER P.）。他的风格以普遍的甜美和光滑的品质为标志，这揭示了著名的翁布里亚画家佩鲁吉诺的影响。十六世纪的传记作家兼画家乔治·瓦萨里（Giorgio Vasari）在他1568年版的《艺术家的生活》中描述了弗朗西亚的"色彩的甜蜜和谐"，促使人们"像疯子一样奔向这种新的、更逼真的美"。瓦萨里认为弗朗西亚是一位即将进入一个新的令人兴奋的绘画时代的艺术家，达芬奇、拉斐尔和米开朗基罗将充分实现这一点。弗朗西亚画了许多类似构图的图像。梵蒂冈美术馆的一幅画与雷曼面板非常相似，两者很可能是由同一幅卡通制成的，这是一幅用于将设计转移到面板上的全尺寸图纸。这幅麦当娜和圣子作品的几次迭代的存在表明了这些图像的流行，这些图像可能用于私人住宅和教堂的个人奉献和沉思。
介绍（英）	Acquired by Robert Lehman in 1944, this painting of the Madonna and Child by the Bolognese artist Francesco Francia is an example of the devotional paintings for which he was well-known. The Virgin, clothed in expansive swathes of colored drapery, supports the Christ Child on her lap. The Child holds a pair of cherries, a reference to the sacrificial blood of Christ. To the Virgin’s right is Saint Francis wearing the traditional tonsure and heavy monastic robes. The bearded figure on the other side is likely Saint Jerome. In the background are trees and hills, which place the holy figures in an earthly setting and make them more accessible and approachable to the viewer. Francia trained and worked successfully as a goldsmith before turning to painting, identifying himself as such in his signature on the parapet (FRANCIA AURIFABER P.). His style is marked by a general sweetness and a smooth quality, which reveals the influence of the famous Umbrian painter Perugino. In his 1568 edition of the Artist’s Lives, the sixteenth-century biographer and painter Giorgio Vasari described Francia’s "sweet harmony of coloring" that prompted people to run "like madmen to this new and more lifelike beauty." Vasari saw Francia as an artist at the verge of a new and exciting age of painting, which would be realized fully by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Francia painted many images of analogous composition. A painting in the Pinacoteca Vaticana is so similar to the Lehman panel that the two were likely made from the same cartoon, a full-scale drawing that was used to transfer the design to the panel. The existence of several iterations of this Madonna and Child composition points to the popularity of these images, which were likely used for personal devotion and contemplation in private homes and chapels.