Madonna and Child
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
- 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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