The Holy Family with Young Saint John

A very important Sienese painter who, through the influence of Michelangelo, and of Leonardo and Raphael through the medium of Sodoma, and not without a knowledge of the northerners, achieves a highly original stylistic conception, which is among the most fanciful of the whole Mannerism. It is based upon a liquid colouring which melts under the impact of light and upon an undulating and serpentine linearism.