Pablo Picasso
Mother and Child

1921
Oil on canvas, 56¼ x 68 in.
Art Institute of Chicago


The reason Picasso's monumental mother figure looks so much like del Piombo's St. Ann is that from 1918 into the early 20s he experimented with figural forms from the ancient art he encountered in Rome, the same kinds of forms that were influencing art during del Piombo's time.

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Source: Art Institute of Chicago