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Triptych with the Virgin and Child, and Saints Mary Magdalene and Ansanus
Also titled Drieluik met Maria en kind en de heiligen Maria Magdalena en Ansanus
Andrea di Cione named Orcagna (Florence, 1320–1368)
1350
- Medium
- panel, tempera
- Classification
- triptych
- Dimensions
- height 146 cm x width 119.5 cm x thickness 8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amersfoort
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Orcagna was the leading Florentine painter of the mid-14th century. This altarpiece, which has survived almost intact, was commissioned in 1350 by a promi-nent citizen for a side-altar in a church. The depiction of the figures of the Virgin and Child and two saints reflects the rather stiff, hieratical style of the period. The frame is reminiscent of Gothic architecture.
