# Madonna and Child with Sts Lawrence and Jerome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRANCIA, Francesco]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Tempera and oil on canvas, 193 x 151 cm ## Commentary Madonna and Child with Sts Lawrence and Jerome 1500 Tempera and oil on canvas, 193 x 151 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg A mixture of influences - the Gothically dry painting of Ferrara, the Umbrian pursuit of soft singing lines, and Venetian colouristic refinement - led the Bolognese Francia to the "sweetness and harmony of paints" that Vasari noted. The artist was noted no less as an engraver, medallist and goldsmith than as a painter. The relief ornaments on the base of the throne indicate that Francia was originally a goldsmith. The inscription reads, "Signor Ludovico Calcina..., canon of San Petronio in Bologna, the reviver and creator, founder and restorer of that church \[for which the painting was made\] valued me, Francia the goldsmith, highly. Bologna. 1500." ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion with Sts John and Jerome]() - [Deposition]() - [Evangelista Scappi]() - [Federigo Gonzaga]() - [Legend of Sts Cecilia and Valerian, Scene 1]() - [Legend of Sts Cecilia and Valerian, Scene 10]() - [Legend of Sts Cecilia and Valerian, Scene 3]() - [Legend of Sts Cecilia and Valerian, Scene 4]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()