A woman cradling an upright male child sits on a semi-circular throne surrounded by four winged angels in this vertical painting, which comes to a shallow, triangular point at the top. The people and angels have pale skin tinged with green, and all have flat, disk-like gold halos. The woman wears a voluminous, navy-blue mantle covered in a dense pattern of gold lines, which drapes over her head and wraps around her rose-pink gown. A sliver of a pumpkin-orange cap covering her hair peeks out from under the mantle. Her body is angled to our right and her head tilts in that direction. She looks…
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Maestà (Madonna and Child with Four Angels)

painter Master of Città di Castello (Italian, active c. 1290 - 1320)

c. 1290

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 230 × 141.5 cm (90 9/16 × 55 11/16 in.) ; overall: 240 × 150 × 2.4 cm (94 1/2 × 59 1/16 × 15/16 in.) ; framed: 252.4 x 159.4 x 13.3 cm (99 3/8 x 62 3/4 x 5 1/4 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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