Virgin and Child with Angels
Artist
Mariotto di Nardo
(active 1394-1427, active in Florence)
Dateca. 1420
MediumTempera and gold on wood transferred to Masonite
DimensionsFrame: 80 5/16 H x 39 11/16 W x 2 15/16 D in. (204 x 100.8 x 7.5 cm)
Unframed support: (still required)
Image: 61 1/2 H x 31 11/16 W in. (156.2 x 80.5 cm)
Unframed support: (still required)
Image: 61 1/2 H x 31 11/16 W in. (156.2 x 80.5 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN7
Mariotto di Nardo crafted this work only years before Masaccio and Donatello executed great experiments in volume and perspective. Though innovations in the realistic depictions of figures in three-dimensional space were occurring during Mariotto's lifetime, he did not embrace the style that characterized the art of the High Renaissance. The iconic gold background and vertical arrangement of the attending angels in space aligns this painting with late Gothic representational trends. The flat halos, unrealistic proportions, and fantastic angelic figures place the scene in an otherworldly realm.
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Giovanni del Biondo
late 1380s
Sienese
