Artist: Lippo Memmi
Date: 1350
Size: 67 x 33 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Tempera
This panel, made for private devotion, was a wing of a diptych. The other panel, with a Crucifixion, is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The Virgin and Child are flanked by diminutive figures of Saints John the Baptist and Francis of Assisi while the nine choirs of heavenly angels—as described by the fifth-century neo-Platonic writer known as Pseudo-Dionysius—ornament the pinnacle. Other saints are shown in an arcade at the bottom of the panel. Sienese artists supplied an eager market for such paintings, whose buyers often took them to other countries. This panel was altered with additional framing elements in the twentieth century.
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