Artist: Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
Size: 85 x 59 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Wood
Unusual for showing the annunciation of Christ’s birth as taking place in the Virgin’s bedroom at night by candlelight, this vibrant oil sketch is rapidly painted on a rough panel and incorporates numerous changes. It is an early example of a modello—a proposal or model for a project that could be shown to the patron. Although it is related to an altarpiece Bedoli painted in the 1550s for a church in his hometown, near Parma, its high quality is worthy of Bedoli’s famous cousin, Parmigianino, to whom it was long attributed. It must predate the altarpiece by a considerable amount of time.
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