Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child

1921
Oil on canvas, 56¼ x 68 in. (143 x 172 cm.)
Art Institute of Chicago

The reason Picasso's monumental mother figure looks so much like St. Anne in Piombo and Salviati's Birth of the Virgin 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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