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Threshold

Keith Christiansen
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“It’s an expression that can be dead, unless we engage ourselves in it.”

Curator Keith Christiansen on Madonna and Child, a thirteenth-century painting by Berlinghiero.

Contributors

Keith Christiansen
John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings

Photography by Mark Morosse

Rights and Permissions:
Consortium, Edward Barbieri, Director, 'I sat down under his shadow' by Edward C Bairstow © Oxford University Press 1925. All rights reserved. Recorded 1998 on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Deux-Elles Limited, DXL827

Art Mentioned

Madonna and Child, Berlinghiero Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground
Madonna and Child
Berlinghiero
possibly 1230s

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