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Madonna with Child and Angels
Matteo di Giovannica. 1470
Fondazione Musei Senesi
Siena, Italy
In this panel by the young Matteo di Giovanni, the Renaissance elegance of the pearly-faced Virgin is exalted by the azure sky laced with thin clouds. Once inserted in a complex baroque altar in the church of Percenna, in the nearby of Buonconvento, it is one of the freshest and most precious works of the Sienese painter, here studying particularly lightening details.
Details
- Title: Madonna with Child and Angels
- Creator Lifespan: ca. 1428 - 1495
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: male
- Creator Death Place: Siena
- Creator Birth Place: Borgo San Sepolcro
- Date Created: ca. 1470
- painter: Matteo di Giovanni
- collocation: Buonconvento, Sacred Art Museum of the Arbia Valley, Province of Siena
- Place Part Of: Province of Siena
- Physical Dimensions: w49.5 x h76 cm
- Artist Biography: Matteo di Giovanni (Borgo San Sepolcro, 1428 ca.-Siena, 1495) is a very precious Renaissance painter, whose paintings often have decorated the main altars of Sienese churches. By the lesson of Domenico di Bartolo and Lorenzo di Pietro known as Vecchietta, his art shows a deep sense of lightening, with bright colours, similar to enamels, and very refined features; his physiognomic study is definitively exemplified by his various versions of the Massacre of the Innocents.
- Type: tempera on panel
- Rights: Comune di Buonconvento; 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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