id: 113202 accession number: 1932.227 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.227 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:50.426000 The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret, c. 1495. Filippino Lippi (Italian, 1457–1504). Tempera and oil on wood; framed: 184 x 186 x 9.5 cm (72 7/16 x 73 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.); diameter: 153 cm (60 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Delia E. Holden Fund and a fund donated as a memorial to Mrs. Holden by her children: Guerden S. Holden, Delia Holden White, Roberta Holden Bole, Emery Holden Greenough, Gertrude Holden McGinley 1932.227 title: The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1495 creation date earliest: 1490 creation date latest: 1500 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: The Delia E. Holden Fund and a fund donated as a memorial to Mrs. Holden by her children: Guerden S. Holden, Delia Holden White, Roberta Holden Bole, Emery Holden Greenough, Gertrude Holden McGinley copyright: --- culture: Italy, 15th century technique: tempera and oil on wood department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Renaissance type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Filippino Lippi (Italian, 1457–1504) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 184 x 186 x 9.5 cm (72 7/16 x 73 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Diameter: 153 cm (60 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts opening date: 1949-09-30T04:00:00 Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Special Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Mrs. S.D. Warren, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (April 1902). * Exhibition of Old Masters, Royal Academy, Burlington House, London (Jan. 4th - March 12th, 1904). --- PROVENANCE Caraffa family, Palazzo Sant'Angelo, Naples date: 1858-1898 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Samuel D. Warren, Boston date: 1898 footnotes: citations: Edward Warren, Lewes House, England date: 1928 footnotes: citations: H. A. Thomas date: 1929 footnotes: citations: Harry Woodbury Parsons, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. date: 1932 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1932- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This type of painting is known as a tondo, a circular work of art. digital description: wall description: Lippi’s sophisticated composition gracefully overlaps five figures in a round format. Oliviero Caraffa, Cardinal of Naples, commissioned this work, although Lippi probably painted it in Rome while working for the cardinal’s family, an example of the widespread taste across Italy for the art of Florence. Meticulously detailed still-life elements on the parapet, thick with symbolic meaning, reflect Lippi’s interest in northern European painting he would have seen in Florence. Likewise the classical architecture—referring to the pagan world cast off by Christianity—demonstrates his engagement with ancient art and architecture in Rome. Embellished with learned references and made with expensive materials, this painting would have actively inspired religious meditation and demonstrated the patrons’ courtly, civilized taste. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Celano, Carlo. Notizie del bello dell'antico e del curioso della città di Napoli: divise dall'autore in 10 giornate per guida e comodo de'viaggiatori ; con aggiunzioni de'piu' notabili miglioramenti posteriori fino al presente estratti dalla storia de' monumenti e dalle memorie di eruditi scrittori Napolitani. 3 3. Napoli: Chiurazzi, 1858. page number: p. 691 url: Crowe, J. A., and G. B. Cavalcaselle. A New History of Painting in Italy, From the Second to the Sixteenth Century. London: J. Murray, 1864. page number: p. 450 url: John Murray (Firm). 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Journal of the History of Collections 33, no.1 (2021): 93-109. page number: Reproduced p.97; mentioned p. 96-103 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.227/1932.227_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.227/1932.227_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.227/1932.227_full.tif