Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints
Image View:
Overall view in museum (Gothic framework removed)
Creator:
Orcagna (Italian painter, ca. 1315-1368)
Location:
repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1890 no. 3469
Location Note:
58-60 via Ricasoli
GPS:
43.77694 11.25873
Date:
ca. 1353 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Gothic (Medieval)
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Work Type 2:
altarpiece
Classification:
painting
Material:
tempera on panel with gilding
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Description:
Probably in 1353, Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) was commissioned by the del Palagio family to paint a pentaptych (Florence, Accademia) for the altar of the chapel of S Niccolò in SS Annunziata, Florence. (It was later moved to S. Maria Maggiore, and then to the Accademia). While the figures in the pentaptych, like those in earlier works, are rather stocky, they become more slender in his later paintings. Bernard Berenson attributed this work to Andrea's brother, Jacopo di Cione. The saints on the right are John the Baptist and Saint James the Greater; the saint left of center in bishop's garb is Saint Nicholas. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-M-AG-MCE-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints