Madonna dell'umiltà

Domenico di Bartolo (ca. 1400-ca. 1447)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1433

Height:

93.0 cm  (36 5/8 in.)

Width:

57.0 cm  (22 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera on wood

Additional titles

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
Jesus Christ

Iconclass

11F43131
'Madonna dell'Umiltà' (usually Mary suckling the Christ-child while sitting on the ground)
11G21
angels singing, making music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]
Portative organ [2267]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2

Bibliographic references

Dickey, Timothy J. "An undiscovered Sienese lauda, Adoramus te, Christe, and the provenance of Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of humility (1433)", Explorations in Renaissance culture 34/1 (2008) 91-123.

Ladis, Andrew. "The music of devotion: Image, voice and the imagination in a Madonna of humility by Domenico di Bartolo", Art and music in the early modern period: Essays in honor of Franca Trinchieri Camiz, ed. by Katherine A. McIver (Aldershot, Hants, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003; reprinted New York: Routledge, 2016) 3-26.

RIdIM record id

5044