Annunciation, 1528
Adoration of the Magi, 1509
Madonna and Child with Saints Michael and Joseph, 1530-32
Saint Michael, Archangel (detail of painting above)
Madonna and Child, 1512-13
Circumcision of Christ, 1519
Madonna in Glory, c.1525
Baptism of Christ, 1520-25
The Entombment, c. 1520
Benvenuto Tisi (1481-1559) came to be remembered as Il Garofalo from his habit of marking paintings with a clover-symbol. He lived and worked in Ferrara, with rare visits to Rome. Orthodox religious crowd-scenes for church-display filled most of his career. When Garofalo wandered into the territory of classical mythology (as in Hercules below) his strength faltered.
Apotheosis of Hercules, 1539