Balbi Holy Conversation | |
Artist: | Titian |
Year: | 1513[1] |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 137 |
Width Metric: | 184 |
City: | Traversetolo |
Museum: | Fondazione Magnani-Rocca |
Balbi Holy Conversation (Italian: Sacra conversazione, also known as Titian Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Dominic and a Donor) is an oil painting by the Italian late Renaissance painter Titian, dated to around 1513, and now held at the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Traversetolo, near Parma, northern Italy.
The work was originally part of marquess Balbi's collection at Genoa, hence the name. It is a work from the artist's youth, set in an open landscape, with some Giorgione influences but already some personal elements, such as the asymmetrical composition and the full figures.