# The Visitation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SALVIATI, Cecchino del]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary This scene is located in the centre of the right wall, between Jacopino's The Annunciation to Zachariah and Salviati's Birth of St John the Baptist. Salviati's four frescoes are the outstanding works of the cycle in the oratory. Among these his contemporaries already considered the Visitation to be of the highest order, as noted by Vasari and confirmed by the numerous copies and printed reproductions made of this scene. Depictions of the visit made by the pregnant Mary to Elizabeth had a long tradition in Florence, whether it was in cycles of John the Baptist or of Mary. Examples are Domenico <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghirland/domenico/6tornab/62tornab/2visita.html'\)" href="/html/a/aachen/allegory.html">Ghirlandaio' fresco</a> in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella, and <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/pontormo/1/01visit.html'\)" href="/html/p/pontormo/1/01visit.html">Pontormo's fresco</a> in the Santissima Annunziata. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Peace Burning Arms]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Bathsheba Bathing \(detail\)]() - [Charity \(detail\)]() - [Charity]() - [Christ Carrying the Cross]() - [Coronation of the Virgin with Angels]() - [Design for a Ewer]() - [Design for the fresco cycle]() - [General view]() - [General view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()