Christ Enthroned with Angels in Adoration

Giovanni da Milano

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AUTHOR Giovanni da Milano
DATE 1360 - 5
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Tempera on panel
DIMENSIONS cm 152.3 x 68.5
INVENTORY 4971
ROOM II
Work on display

Giovanni da Milano is the most significant Lombard painter of the 14th century and arguably the most important painter active in Florence in the second half of the 14th century. He originally came from a small town near Como, moved first to Milan and then to Florence, where he painted the Rinuccini Chapel in the sacristy of the Basilica of Santa Croce and the extraordinary Pietà now at the Galleria dell’Accademia. The Brera panel was painted as the centrepiece of an altar for an unknown church around 1360.