The Meeting of Christ and Saint John the Baptist by the River Jordan

Also known as the Apolloni Sacrum Master, the Master of Marradi was first identified by Federico Zeri ('La mostra "Arte in Valdelsa" a Certaldo', Bolletino d'arte, XLVIII, July-September 1963, pp. 249-50). A follower of Domenico Ghirlandaio, and close to the style of Bartolommeo di Giovanni, the Master of Marradi worked in Florence until late in his career. He then moved to the Mugello, working in a mountain church called the Badia del Borgo near the town of Marradi, where five of his pictures can be found, on the road from Florence to Faenza.

Filed in the Berenson library under Baldovinetti, it was Everett Fahy who first published this picture in 1967 as the Master of Marradi, noting that the possibly period copy in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts was sold to the dealer Victor Spark, New York, in 1956.