Imagined after Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
A tennis court with an Australian shepherd chasing tons of tennis balls around
After Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, made 2026-10-12. An AI-imagined work, credited after the artist and grounded in documented technique; not a historical work.
The statement
I have just completed a panel in tempera depicting a tennis court with an Australian shepherd chasing tons of tennis balls around. This subject may seem far removed from my usual devotional work, yet I approach it with the same concern for **clarity** and **intimacy** that guided my *Madonna and Child* of 1515.
In that earlier work, I painted a close two-figure group—Mother and Child alone, no gold field, no extra saints—to create a space of private devotion. Here, too, I seek **clarity**: one creature, one purpose, no confusion. The shepherd moves through a field of scattered balls with the same singular focus the Virgin's gaze holds upon her infant.
I render the animal's soft flesh in the Lombard manner I learned—**tenderness** in the musculature, **beauty** in the naturalistic form. The balls repeat across the panel like prayer beads, each one a point of devotion. The viewer should feel the same gentle affection and close familiarity I sought in my half-length devotional panels: not spectacle, but **intimacy**—a private moment of pure, joyful attention that transcends its humble subject.
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