The Madonna with Child and Saints is a painting by the Italian late Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli

Luca Signorelli

Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance painter who was noted in particular for his ability as a draughtsman and his use of foreshortening...

, executed around 1519-1523. It is housed in the Museo di arte medievale e moderna of Arezzo

Arezzo

Arezzo is a city and comune in Central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 m above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000....

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Italy

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The picture is a traditional Holy Conversation composition.

History

The painting was commissioned by the Brotherhood of St. Jerome in Arezzo for their seat. The work was executed in Cortona

Cortona

Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic center of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.-History:...

, and was brought to Arezzo by the painter himself, who was then in his seventies: here he resided in the Vasari family's house, meeting there the young Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

, his future biographer, who started to practice painting after Signorelli's suggestion.

It is the last work by Signorelli, who died after returning to Cortona.