It was almost compulsory for sixteenth-century Flemish artists to travel to Italy to steep themselves in the art of the Italian Renaissance, but Giorgio Ghisi made the trip in the opposite direction. In the early 1550s, he worked for the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock, who commissioned him to make engravings of celebrated Italian paintings, including this one of the late 1530s by the Florentine Agnolo Bronzino. One of three large-scale prints by Ghisi to be issued by Cock, this print, which reverses the painting, emphasizes its glowing light. It also adds inscriptions in praise of Mary. The background details of trees and a walled city are further amplifications by Ghisi upon the original composition. Because it was the same size as the painting, this engraving would almost have been a stand-in for Bronzino’s work.