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Description: | According to Bellori, Pope Clement VIII was a guest of the Duke of Urbino, who gave him a princely present, a golden vase for Holy Water, which, to make it even more precious, was decorated with the figure of the infant Christ painted by Federico Barocci, with one hand holding the globe while with the other he blesses the world. The pope liked it so much that he had it removed from the vase and kept it in his prayer book. The Glasgow painting may be one of the two copies paid for by the Duke of Urbino in 1597 and 1598. | Subjects: | figure; religion (the Infant Christ) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Barocci, Federico (Italian painter, 1528-1612) Æ Attributed to studio of Previously attributed to Barocci, Federico (Italian painter, 1528-1612) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8812... | Go to resource |
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