The Met to Acquire Renaissance Artist Rosso Fiorentino’s Rediscovered Seminal Painting

Uncovered by recent conservation treatment, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist was formative in the development of the Mannerist style The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it will acquire a newly rediscovered painting by Renaissance artist Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540), one of the great masters of the maniera moderna, known today