A woman holding a baby sits on a throne in front of a cloth held up by five winged angels in this vertical painting. The woman, baby, and angels all have pale skin tinged with gray, long, straight noses, narrow mouths, almond-shaped eyes, and gold halos. The woman sits with her knees and shoulders squared to us. She looks at us with light brown eyes, and her head tips slightly to the right, toward the baby. A white veil drapes over her head and shoulders, and she wears a slate-blue dress under a teal-green robe, which is lined with pale, spring green. Gold lines densely spaced across the…
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Madonna and Child with Five Angels

painter Giovanni Baronzio (Italian, active c. 1320 - 1350)

c. 1335

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 100.6 × 48.2 cm (39 5/8 × 19 in.) ; overall: 102.3 × 49.3 × 3.7 cm (40 1/4 × 19 7/16 × 1 7/16 in.) ; framed: 138.4 x 70.1 cm (54 1/2 x 27 5/8 in.)
Culture
Rimini
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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