Shown from the hips up, a woman to our left holds a baby upright in her arms to our right, both against a gold background on a panel shaped to come to a sharp point at the top of this vertical painting. The pale skin of both people is faintly tinted with green. The woman’s body is angled to our right and she looks at the child she holds. She has wide, hooded, light brown eyes under faint brows, a long, straight nose, and her pale pink lips are closed. She wears a sapphire-blue mantle that covers her head and drapes down past her shoulders over a crimson-red dress. Edges of a white veil are…
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Madonna and Child, with the Blessing Christ [middle panel]

Pietro Lorenzetti (Sienese, active 1306 - 1345)

probably 1340

Medium
tempera on panel transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 98 × 49.2 cm (38 9/16 × 19 3/8 in.) ; overall: 99.5 × 52.3 cm (39 3/16 × 20 9/16 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg
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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