A woman sitting on the floor and cradling a nursing baby in her lap is flanked by two winged angels and a kneeling woman, beneath a bearded man supported on a third angel in this vertical painting. The seated woman, Mary, and the infant, Jesus, have pale, peachy skin, blond hair, and hazel eyes. Mary sits facing us on a long cushion on the floor with her body angled to our right, taking up about half the height of the composition. Her round face is tilted to our right as she gazes up under faint brows. Her marine-blue mantle is trimmed with gold and has a star on her right shoulder, to our…
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Madonna of Humility, The Blessing Christ, Two Angels, and a Donor [obverse]

painter Andrea di Bartolo (Sienese, active from 1389 - died 1428)

c. 1380/1390

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 28.4 × 17 cm (11 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.) ; overall: 30 × 18.6 × 0.8 cm (11 13/16 × 7 5/16 × 5/16 in.) ; framed: 52.1 x 34.3 x 7.6 cm (20 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 3 in.)
Culture
Sienese
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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