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Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels

ca. 1350
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 601

This panel, made for private devotion, was a wing of a diptych. The other panel, with a Crucifixion, is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The Virgin and Child are flanked by diminutive figures of Saints John the Baptist and Francis of Assisi while the nine choirs of heavenly angels—as described by the fifth-century neo-Platonic writer known as Pseudo-Dionysius—ornament the pinnacle. Other saints are shown in an arcade at the bottom of the panel. Sienese artists supplied an eager market for such paintings, whose buyers often took them to other countries. This panel was altered with additional framing elements in the twentieth century.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
  • Artist: Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1317–died 1356)
  • Date: ca. 1350
  • Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground
  • Dimensions: Overall, with shaped top and engaged (partially modern) frame, 26 1/4 x 13 in. (66.7 x 33 cm); painted surface 19 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (50.2 x 25.7 cm); predella 1 1/2 x 10 in. (3.8 x 25.4 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943
  • Object Number: 43.98.6
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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