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The Ognissanti Madonna is a large tempera-and-gold panel painted by Giotto di Bondone around 1310, probably for the Church of Ognissanti in Florence, and now in the Uffizi Gallery. It shows the Virgin and Child enthroned beneath a Gothic canopy and surrounded by angels and saints. Giotto gives the t...
The Santa Trinità Maestà is a large tempera and gold altarpiece painted by Cimabue around 1290 to 1300 for the church of Santa Trinita in Florence. It depicts the Virgin enthroned with the Christ Child, surrounded by angels, while prophets appear beneath the throne. The work retains Byzantine conven...
The Foligno Madonna is a large votive altarpiece painted by Raphael around 1511-1512 for Sigismondo de' Conti, a papal official and humanist. The Virgin and Child appear within a radiant celestial glory above Saints John the Baptist, Francis, and Jerome, while the kneeling donor is presented by Jero...
The Rucellai Madonna is a monumental tempera-and-gold altarpiece painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna in 1285 for the Florentine confraternity known as the Laudesi at Santa Maria Novella. It shows the enthroned Virgin and Child surrounded by angels within an ornate architectural frame. Long attributed t...
The Maestà formerly associated with Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna is an enthroned Virgin and Child attributed to Cimabue and generally dated to the late thirteenth century. Mary appears frontally on an elaborate throne, surrounded by angels arranged in ordered tiers. The painting retains the form...
The San Barnaba Altarpiece is a large tempera panel painted by Sandro Botticelli around 1487 to 1488 for the church of San Barnaba in Florence and now held by the Uffizi Gallery. It presents the Virgin and Child enthroned beneath an architectural canopy, accompanied by six saints in a sacra conversa...
Sandro Botticelli's Bardi Altarpiece, painted around 1485, is now in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin. It shows the enthroned Virgin and Child between Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist beneath an elaborate architectural and vegetal canopy. Commissioned by the Florentine banker Giovann...
The Pala dei Decemviri is an altarpiece painted by Pietro Perugino for the chapel of Perugia's governing council, the Decemviri, in the Palazzo dei Priori. Its principal scene presents the Virgin and Child enthroned with saints, using the balanced arrangement, clear space, and restrained figures ass...
