Madonna and Child

ca. 1280
Not on view
Painted in the 1280s, this head is a fragment of a large painting of the Madonna and Child (whose blessing hand and knee can be seen). The artist was a close follower of Cimabue, the principal painter in Florence before Giotto. It was not uncommon to excise the head of the Madonna from a venerated image and encase it in another work of art as a focus of devotion.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Madonna and Child
  • Artist: Master of the Magdalen (Italian, Florence, active 1265–95)
  • Date: ca. 1280
  • Medium: Tempera on wood
  • Dimensions: Irregular, 29 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (74.9 x 46.4 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1964
  • Object Number: 64.189.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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