# The Holy Family with St John the Baptist

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BEZZI, Giovanni Francesco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bezzi-giovanni-francesco-r36d926c0a4b89f>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on wood, 50 x 38 cm

## Commentary

This picture displays several distinctive aspects of Mannerist vocabulary: formal complexity, awkward composition, eclectic style, and vibrant colouring. Unlike his master&#39;s fluid, near academic reading of Michelangelo&#39;s style, Giovan Francesco Bezzi \(Nosadella\) invested his figures with an exaggerated, almost grotesque monumentality and placed them within a relationship of congested intimacy.

## Attribution

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