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The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

ca. 1485–90
Not on view
The very finely pricked holes on the outlines of this drawing suggest that it may have served as a design for embroidery, perhaps for the cape of a chasuble (liturgical vestment) or an altar frontal. The drawing style is typical of the Florentine painter Bartolomeo di Giovanni, a collaborator of Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio who routinely made designs for vestments as well as woodcuts.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist
  • Artist: Bartolomeo di Giovanni (Italian, Florence, active by 1481–died 1501)
  • Date: ca. 1485–90
  • Medium: Pen and light and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk underdrawing.
  • Dimensions: 6 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (17.7 x 14.2 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.370
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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