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Madonna of Milk
Ambrogio Lorenzettica. 1325 - ca. 1348
Fondazione Musei Senesi
Siena, Italy
The painting, with every residue of rigid Bizanthine frontalism superseded, is characterised by the emotional relationship between mother and son, efficaciously expressed thanks to the naturalness of the poses and the liveliness of the gazes. Particularly precious are the punched decorations on the golden background.
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- Title: Madonna of Milk
- Creator Lifespan: ca. 1285 - 1348
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: male
- Creator Death Place: Siena
- Creator Birth Place: Siena
- Date Created: ca. 1325 - ca. 1348
- painter: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
- collocation: Siena, Oratory of San Bernardino and Diocesan Sacred Art Museum, Province of Siena
- Place Part Of: Province of Siena
- Artist Biography: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, one of the protagonists of early fourteenth-century Sienese painting together with his brother Pietro, is responsible for a crucial development in Sienese art, moving from the tradition inherited from Duccio towards a Gothic style, incorporating the innovations in Florence introduced by Giotto and Arnolfo di Cambio. By now at the peak of his career, he was called to paint the frescoes of the Sala della Pace in Palazzo Pubblico, his undisputed masterpiece; this enterprise confirmed him as the leading artist in the city and the Sienese government’s ‘official painter.’ Like so much of the Sienese population, Ambrogio too seems to have fallen victim to the Black Plague of 1348.
- Type: tempera on panel
- Rights: Curia Arcivescovile di Siena, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Montalcino; Fondazione Musei Senesi, Fondazione Musei Senesi
- External Link: Fondazione Musei Senesi
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