{"id":4286,"date":"2025-03-24T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:29:55","slug":"emilian-school-holy-family-with-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/emilian-school-holy-family-with-st-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilian School Holy Family with St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2{max-width:100%;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-dir-horizontal:not(.kb-section-md-dir-vertical)>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2{-webkit-flex:0 1 100%;flex:0 1 100%;max-width:unset;margin-left:unset;margin-right:unset;}.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2{position:relative;}@media all and (min-width: 1025px){.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-dir-horizontal>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2{-webkit-flex:0 1 100%;flex:0 1 100%;max-width:unset;margin-left:unset;margin-right:unset;}}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-sm-dir-vertical:not(.kb-section-sm-dir-horizontal):not(.kb-section-sm-dir-specificity)>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2{max-width:100%;-webkit-flex:1;flex:1;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}.kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column4286_411bad-d2 mobile-section\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo.png\" alt=\"Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch Collection\" class=\"wp-image-2922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo.png 774w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/lynch-logo-768x113.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4286_8816ea-52 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4286_8816ea-52 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#f1f1f1;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4286_8816ea-52 .kt-divider{width:100%!important;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4286_8816ea-52\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Unknown artist (Emilian school)<\/strong><br><em>Holy Family with St. John<\/em>, mid- to late 16th century<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oil on panel<br>McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 1988.60<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/emilian-holy-family.jpg\" alt=\"Holy Family with St. John\" class=\"wp-image-4287\" style=\"width:1202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/emilian-holy-family.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/emilian-holy-family-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/emilian-holy-family-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/emilian-holy-family-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-not-stacked-on-mobile has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#f1f1f1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Stephanie C. Leone<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>Professor, Art History<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/leone.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie C. Leone\" class=\"wp-image-4288\" style=\"width:78px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/leone.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/leone-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1549\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm1.jpg\" alt=\"The Holy Family with Angels\" class=\"wp-image-4289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm1.jpg 1549w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm1-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm1-826x1024.jpg 826w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm1-768x952.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm1-1239x1536.jpg 1239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1549px) 100vw, 1549px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Parmigianino,&nbsp;<em>The Holy Family with Angels<\/em>, c. 1524. Oil on panel, Museo del Prado, Madrid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm2-766x1024.png\" alt=\"The Madonna and Child\" class=\"wp-image-4290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm2-766x1024.png 766w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm2-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm2-768x1027.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm2-1148x1536.png 1148w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/03\/parm2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Parmigianino,&nbsp;<em>The Madonna and Child<\/em>, c. 1527\u201330. Oil on panel, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>First documented in 1933 in Bapst Library at Boston College, this graceful yet sturdy Madonna presents her child with an air of knowing confidence while he sits upright, ever so slightly springing forward, to bless the viewer. Mother and child are interrelated, yet autonomous, figures, connected by a deep human bond but aware of their sacred mission. Together, they foretell the future of the Christ Child, the Savior. The quasi-iconic central figures are offset by the diagonal placement of the elderly Joseph in the upper right corner and the infant John the Baptist at lower left, who dynamically leans forward to witness the Savior. The universal Catholic subject and the small dimensions indicate that the painting functioned as a private devotional work. The idealized beauty of the Madonna symbolizes her inner, spiritual grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refinement of the poses, the physiognomies of small, elongated features, the preciosity of details, such as the tight curls of John the Baptist\u2019s hair, and the complex coloristic effects in the draperies and the sky, recall the work of Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, 1503\u201340). Trained by his printmaking family in Parma, in the Emilian region of northern Italy, Parmigianino displayed a precocious talent for painting. In 1524, the young artist moved to Rome, where he sought to become a new Raphael, the great Renaissance painter who had died four years earlier. To win the patronage of Pope Clement VII, Parmigianino brought with him his first mature work, the&nbsp;<em>Holy Family with Angels<\/em>, c. 1524, now in the Museo del Prado (see image). In Rome, he made devotional paintings that combine the lessons of Raphael as well as Leonardo and Michelangelo, with his distinctive idealism and elegance known as mannerism, as seen in the&nbsp;<em>Madonna and Child<\/em>, c. 1527\u201330, in the Kimbell Art Museum (see image).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the affinities of style between the McMullen&nbsp;<em>Holy Family<\/em>&nbsp;and these paintings, differences in the handling of the paint suggest that this painting is not by the hand of Parmigianino but rather an as-yet unidentified painter of the Emilian school following the master.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4286_159efc-f6 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4286_159efc-f6 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#f1f1f1;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4286_159efc-f6 .kt-divider{width:100%!important;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4286_159efc-f6\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"383\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-1024x383.png\" alt=\"Logo Gold\" class=\"wp-image-2910\" style=\"width:569px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-1024x383.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/museum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/249\/2025\/01\/mcmullen-logo-gold.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown artist (Emilian school)Holy Family with St. John, mid- to late 16th century Oil on panelMcMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 1988.60 Stephanie C. 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