Madonna Moscardo

The panel, probably reserved for private devotion, is dated around 1510, because the stylistic characteristics of Morone's early production, such as chromatic boldness and volumetric simplification, have now lost those programmatic excesses that can be recognized in the works painted at the beginning of the century. The vertical strip of landscape on the left, where some buildings with a Nordic flavor appear, reproduces the background of a youthful engraving by Dürer, the so-called Sea Monster, and constitutes the only literal quote by Francesco Morone from the graphic production of the German colleague.