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  • Madonna and Child
    Berlinghiero (Italian, Lucca, active by 1228, died by 1236)
    Tempera on wood, gold ground

    Overall: 31 5/8 x 21 1/8 in. (80.3 x 53.7 cm); Painted surface: 30 x 19 1/2 in. (76.2 x 49.5 cm)
    Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1960 (60.173)

    Berlinghiero was the outstanding painter of thirteenth-century Lucca. This painting—of exceptional beauty and importance—is one of only two that can be confidently assigned to him on the basis of comparison with a signed crucifix. Berlinghiero was always open to Byzantine influence, and this Madonna is of the Byzantine type known as the Hodegetria, in which the Madonna points to the Child as the way to salvation.

    This work of art also appears on Connections: Collage and on 82nd & FifthThreshold

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    Madonna and Child
    Berlinghiero (Italian, Lucca, active by 1228, died by 1236)
    Tempera on wood, gold ground

    Overall: 31 5/8 x 21 1/8 in. (80.3 x 53.7 cm); Painted surface: 30 x 19 1/2 in. (76.2 x 49.5 cm)
    Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1960 (60.173)


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