Madonna enthroned with saints and angels

Gaddi, Agnolo (active 1369, died 1396)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1380-1390
Height:
197.0 cm  (77 9/16 in.)
Width:
80.0 cm  (31 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
tempera on panel
Place of creation:
Firenze (Italia)

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    Samuel H. Kress Collection[Museum inv. no.: 1937.1.4a/b/c]

Description

Triptych (137.1.4a, 137.1.4b, and 137.1.4c) with two angels, one playing lute and one playing psaltery, lower central panel.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
Jesus Christ

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (view is from behind the angel; only upper neck and pegbox visible)
Psaltery [3677] (view is from behind the angel; instrument almost entirely obscured)

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Brown, Howard Mayer. "A corpus of trecento pictures with musical subject matter. I/2: Pictures signed by or attributed to particular artists or their followers: Deodatus to Meo da Siena", Imago musicae II (1985) 200, no. 134. RILM 1987-08785.

RIdIM record id

123