# Virgin and Child with the Infant St John [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUSTICI, Giovanni Francesco]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Presumably from the first decade of the 16th century is a roundel of the Virgin and Child with the Infant St John that, according to Vasari, Rustici carved in marble for the guild of silk merchants, the Arte della Seta. It seems to be a commentary on Michelangelo's marble tondi of the Virgin and Child, especially the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/2/3taddei.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/1sculptu/2/3taddei.html">one for Taddeo Taddei,</a> but, unlike them, it is fully resolved and carefully finished. It also reflects a 15th-century source, Desiderio da Settignano's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/desideri/virgin\_c.html'\)" href="/html/d/desideri/virgin\_c.html">relief of the Virgin and Child,</a> and emulates <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/raphael/5roma/2/07sedia1.html'\)" href="/html/r/raphael/5roma/2/07sedia1.html">painted tondi by Raphael.</a> ## Related artworks - [A Dancing Faun]() - [Apollo and Marsyas]() - [Apollo Vanquishing the Serpent Python]() - [Battle]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Battle scene]() - [Bust of Boccaccio]() - [Bust of Boccaccio]() - [Chariot of Victory]() - [Conversion of St Paul]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()