Sacra Conversazione (San Ruffillo)

The artwork

This fresco has been detached from the wall twice, and the second time, after the 1966 flood, a sinopia was found underneath, that is a preparatory drawing on the wall, perhaps for another work, attributed to Raffaellino del Garbo. It comes printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• The Madonna and Child with four saints, in a fresco fragment with an irregular edge.
• The pale colours of fresco, gentle in a bedroom.
• A gift for anyone who loves the churches of Florence.

Pontormo painted it around 1514 for the Florentine church of San Ruffillo. Around the Madonna he placed Saint Lucy with the dish holding her eyes and the Archangel Michael with the scales; kneeling on either side, Saint Agnes and Saint Zacharias.

Before the church was demolished in 1823, the fresco was detached and moved to the Chapel of Saint Luke, at Santissima Annunziata, and in the detachment the upper part, with God the Father and the cherubim, was lost.

Today it covers the old door of the Chapel of Saint Luke, the chapel of Florentine artists, and it belongs to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno.

In a bright entrance hall or a study, it brings into your home a fragment of Florence that outlived a demolished church. It suits the name day of a Lucy or an Agnes, and an eye doctor who loves art.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
Framed size: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with a gold fillet, handmade, with glass