A woman wearing a long black robe sits on a wide, bench-like seat and holds a child on her lap in this vertical painting. Both have pale skin, rosy cheeks, and gold halos. The panel is shaped so that it is round around the woman’s head and halo; it then widens into a tall rectangle at her shoulders. That woman, Mary, sits with her body facing us and looks off to our right with brown, almond-shaped eyes. She has an oval face with arched brows, a long, straight nose, and her narrow pink lips are closed. Her black garment has a pattern of brick-red diamond shapes with tiny white swirls at the…
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints

Margaritone d'Arezzo (Italian, active second and third quarter 13th century)

c. 1240/1245

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 97.3 × 49.9 × 1.3 cm (38 5/16 × 19 5/8 × 1/2 in.) ; height (main panel, without extension for head and halo): 73.6 cm (29 in.) ; top section (extension for head and halo): 26.5 × 23.5 cm (10 7/16 × 9 1/4 in.) ; framed: 102.2 x…
Culture
Arezzo
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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