Of the saints, only Francis of Assisi (about 1181
- 1226) can be identified with certainty; he is the figure standing far left.
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The Virgin is seated on a wooden bench in front of a large wicker firescreen, the shape of which suggests a halo, & appears to have been nursing the infant Christ. She is shown as the Queen of Heaven in her palace. Her richly ornamented dress, precious ...

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The Virgin & Child are enthroned before a landscape. The Christ Child holds a cross. The elaborate architectural canopy behind them, with its wealth of curving arches, is typical of painters' interest in the decorative possibilities of such backgrounds ...

This small triptych is in its original frame. The Virgin & Child are enthroned in the central panel. On the left-hand shutter is an unidentified bishop saint, & on the right-hand shutter Saint Louis. On the reverses, shown when the shutters were close ...

This painting formed the central part of an altarpiece in the chapel of the Roverella family in S. Giorgio fuori le mura in Ferrara. Pairs of saints with kneeling members of the Roverella family stood in the flanking panels, in an architectural interior c ...

On the left Saint John the Baptist & Saint Zenobius are shown standing near the kneeling Saint Jerome. On the right stand Saint Peter & Saint Dominic while the kneeling figure is Saint Francis. Benozzo Gozzoli was contracted to paint this picture on 2 ...

The Virgin Mary is shown on an inlaid marble throne, with an Eastern carpet at her feet. The Christ Child holds a pomegranate, a symbol of the Passion. The form of the signature, meaning Gentile Bellini, Knight of Venice, indicates that the picture cannot be from before 1469, when Gentile Bellini was knighted. The decorative treatment & some details, such as the tiny trees in the Gothic tradition, would suggest a fairly early date. ...

The Virgin Mary is seated on an elaborate throne with the Christ Child. The Child is standing, giving a sign of blessing. Above them, the foreshortened figure of God the Father is dispatching the dove of the Holy Spirit. This work, together with ' Head of a Tonsured Beardless Saint' & ' Head of a Tonsured Bearded Saint' also in the Collection, are the surviving fragments (now transferred to canvas) from a street tabernacle painted at the Canto de' Carnesecchi, not far from the Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence. The two heads of saints are fragments from the sides of the tabernacle. According to the painter & biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511
- 1574), this was one of Domenico's first works in Florence.
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This is a variant of Benozzo's altarpiece, ' The Virgin & Child Enthroned', with the attendant saints omitted. Two extra seated angels are added, apparently from a design of Donatello. This work was probably done soon after the altarpiece, perhaps in Ben ...