Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist (Mantegna)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist is a tempera on canvas painting by Andrea Mantegna, dating to 1495-1500. It measures 75.5 cm by 61.5 cm and is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden.^[1]

Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist
Artist	Andrea Mantegna
Year	1495-1505
Medium	tempera on canvas
Dimensions	75,5 cm × 61,5 cm (297 in × 242 in)
Location	Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

History

Mantegna concentrates the characters from his Presentation at the Temple into a smaller space to produce a work intended for private devotion. To the left of the Virgin and Child is Saint Joseph and to the right are Saint Anne and John the Baptist. Joseph and John look directly at the viewer. The painter kept returning to the scene in various copies and variants, including one now at the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, one at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris and one at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.