Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Pietro Orioli

Download hi-res image TITLE Madonna and Child with Two Angels
AUTHOR Pietro Orioli
DATE c. 1480
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Tempera on panel
TECNICA OPERA tempera su tavola
DIMENSIONS cm 60x37
ROOM V
Work on display

Pietro di Francesco Orioli was a Sienese painter open to the modern influence of Renaissance painting, but only thirty years ago he was unknown to Italy’s best known art historians. The painting shows a Madonna with a child and two wingless angels. It shows the sky in the background, at a moment when Siena – we are still in the second half of the 15th century – continued to produce paintings with gold backgrounds reminiscent of the late Gothic period.