Object number1917.1.2

Madonna and Child with Two Saints

Date1475-1485

attributed to Fiorenzo di Lorenzo (Italian, c. 1445–1525)

CultureItalian

MediumTempera on panel

DimensionsUnframed: 19 5/16 x 13 3/8 in. (49 x 34 cm)
Framed: 29 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. (74 x 55 x 8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Charles M. Pratt

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Period15th c

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BibliographyFredericksen, Burton B; Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972, p. 623; Jolly, Penny Howell. Growing Up in a Renaissance Palazzo, Glen Falls, NY: The Hyde Collection, 2024, p. 1Exhibition HistoryGrowing Up in a Renaissance Palazzo, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, October 5, 2024 - January 5, 2025
DescriptionA depiction of the Virgin Mary and Jesus as an infant. Mary has gilded details to her garments while Jesus has a translucent cloth around his waist and wears a bracelet and necklace of coral beads. Behind them is a sumptuous brocade-like background and in the lower part of the foreground are two clerical figures wearing robes. The figure on the left has a shaved head consistent with a monk's tonsure and holds a chalice like item in his left hand while pointing to it with his right hand. The bishop saint figure at right wears a pointed, mitre hat and carries a book in one hand and crozier, astaff that curves decoratively at the end, in his other hand. All the figures in the work have gilded halos surrounding their head.

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