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Many pictures have been attributed to Alonso Berruguete's Italian period and much has been claimed for them. These claims, which situate the artist in the vanguard of early Mannerism, are often supported by the questionable attribution of eccentric, unclassical paintings, which seem to lack true stylistic unity. One of the plausible candidates for his authorship is this tondo of the Madonna and Child with the Young St John, which both reflects and distorts the style of Michelangelo- The intimate embrace of the two figures and the ambiguous gesture of the Child, who places a finger in the side of his mouth, are characteristic of the unstable world of early Florentine Mannerism.
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