About the Artist

Lorenzo di Credi (c. 1459 Florence-1537 Florence) first studied in the goldsmith workshop of his father, Andrea di Credi. It is documented that he was a pupil of the painter Andrea del Verrocchio from 1480 to 1488, in whose studio he apparently also made statues and was influenced by his fellow student, the young Leonardo da Vinci. Lorenzo di Credi chiefly painted religious history pictures and portraits. His works are difficult to organize chronologically; they are charcterized by their careful and unchanging technical perfection of design, and colobration that is influenced by Netherlandish painting. Di Credi's faces and figures are often repetitions of the same conventional types, painted in light colors. The artist's works include The Annunciation, c. 1485, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Self-portrait, 1488, National Gallery of Art, Washigton DC; and Virgin and Child with St. Sebastian and John the Evangelist, c. 1516, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.