''Visitation'' is an oil on canvas painting of the

Visitation Visitation may refer to: Law * Visitation (law) or contact, the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children * Prison visitation rights, the rules and conditions under which prisoners may have visitors Music * ''Visitation'' (D ...

by Italian painter

Giovanni Cariani Giovanni Cariani (c. 1490–1547), also known as Giovanni Busi or Il Cariani, was an Italian painter of the high-Renaissance, active in Venice and the Venetian mainland, including Bergamo, thought to be his native city. Overview His father, ...

, from ''c.'' 1524–1528. It is unrecorded before its appearance in the 1929 catalogue of the

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal do ...

in Vienna, where it still hangs. No commissioner or precise date can be ascribed to it. L. Baldass, ''Ein unbekann Hauptiwerk des Cariani'', Vienna, 1929.

References

1520s paintings Paintings by Giovanni Cariani Paintings of the Visitation Paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum {{16C-painting-stub