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Engaged arched cassetta frame

1460–70
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 956
Apart from the damage to the base and some minor repairs, the original engaged frame on this "Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, and Anthony of Padua, and Two Angels" by Sano di Pietro (see also 1975.1.2311, 1975.1.40b) has a wonderful patina. The depressed arch keeps the frame from appearing to echo the Madonna's halo. this type of molding profile was used throughout the fifteenth century; the punched decoration is archaic. The halos and the static arrangement of the heads around the Madonna and Child also refelct a conservative taste in fifteenth-century style, as does the way the figures are cut off as if by a window frame.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Engaged arched cassetta frame
  • Date: 1460–70
  • Culture: Sienese
  • Medium: Poplar. Mitered; arch two pieces of wood. Gilt; deep orange bole.
  • Dimensions: Overall: 29 3/16 × 20 3/8 in. (74.2 × 51.7 cm)
    Sight: 24 7/16 × 15 9/16 in. (62 × 39.6 cm)
  • Classification: Frames
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.42b
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, and Anthony of Padua and Two Angels, Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, and Anthony of Padua and Two Angels
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)
ca. 1465–70
Tondo mirror frame, Italian, Siena, Poplar; carved, gilt; deep red-brown bole., Italian, Siena
Tondo mirror frame
Italian, Siena
ca. 1490–1500
Engaged arched cassetta frame and arched tabernacle frame, Poplar. Carved, gilt; orange-red bole, blue and white color, all over greenish tone., Sienese
Engaged arched cassetta frame and arched tabernacle frame
Sienese
ca. 1465 and 1490 (?)
Cassetta frame, Poplar(?). Gilt; red-orange bole., Sienese
Cassetta frame
Sienese
ca. 1450
Integral tondo molding, Single piece of poplar. Carved, gilt; brown-red bole, blue in dentil., Sienese
Integral tondo molding
Sienese
mid-15th century

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