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La Madonna col Bambino (dell'Osservanza) Siena
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Artist: Sano di Pietro
Year: 1435–1440
Current location: Metropolitan Museum di New York
Original location: Basilica dell'Osservanza
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
Tempera and gold on panel, 143.5 x 49.5 cm
The Madonna and Child corresponds to the central panel of the famous Polyptych of the Passion, painted in tempera and gold on panel and attributed to the Master of the Osservanza, often identified by critics as Sano di Pietro.
The work is currently housed in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the prestigious Robert Lehman Collection.
It comes from the high altar of the Basilica of San Bernardino all'Osservanza in Siena.
The work represents one of the pinnacles of the early Sienese Renaissance, where the purity of late Gothic lines merges with a new sensitivity to volume and space, strongly influenced by Sassetta.
The Polyptych of the Passion, of which the painting constituted the central part, was a large altarpiece that was dismantled in subsequent centuries.
Other traced elements of the polyptych include:
The side panels depict Saint John the Baptist, now in a private collection in Dallas, and Saint Lucy, now in the Palazzo Sansedoni in Siena.
The panels of the predella, which included the famous scenes from the Passion of Christ (hence the polyptych's name), are now divided among various international museums.
The Crucifixion panel is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena, and the Resurrection panel is in the Metropolitan Museum.
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