Giovanni Santi (or di Santi) was a court painter at Urbino, and the father of Raphael. He is thought to have been influenced by Melozzo; he also expressed admiration for Mantegna.
Giovanni Santi
active 1469 - 1494
Paintings by Giovanni Santi
The Virgin bends over the sleeping Christ Child, the diagonal slope of her body paralleled by that of her son’s. Her lips are parted – perhaps she’s singing her child to sleep. Christ is balanced rather precariously on a red cushion on a parapet. His head rests in his mother’s hand and one arm ha...
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