Two painted panels on a gilded, carved, wooden frame are swung open like shutters to show a bearded, gray-haired man wearing robes standing in each wing, on either side of painted central panel with a pointed, arched top showing a woman holding a baby. The woman and child have pale skin and the men to either side have more tanned complexions. Gold halos encircle each person’s head, and the backgrounds of all three panels are bright gold. The woman in the center panel is shown from the hips up with her body facing us. The deep blue mantle that drapes over her shoulders and her dusty rose-pink…
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Madonna and Child, with Saints Peter and John the Evangelist, and Man of Sorrows [entire triptych]

Nardo di Cione (Florentine, active from c. 1340; died 1365/1366)

c. 1360

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76 × 66.4 cm (29 15/16 × 26 1/8 in.)
Culture
Florentine
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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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