Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Technical Details
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Title
Madonna and Child with Two Angels -
Author
Pietro Orioli -
Year
c. 1480 -
Dimensions
cm 60x37 -
Room
V
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.
