Madonna and Child with Five Angels
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About this painting
Watch the Child's hands. The right reaches for his mother's veil; the left rests on an insect, drawn large. Miklós Boskovits reads the veil as an allusion to the Passion and the insect as a locust, the Baptist's food in the wilderness; this throne stood at the centre of an altarpiece for John the Baptist, flanked by his story.
Five angels hold a cloth of honour, a Rimini habit; small lions on the armrests recall Solomon's throne. Its church is unknown. Its meaning is in his hands: one on the Passion, one on the Baptist's diet.
Sources: Miklós Boskovits, 'Madonna and Child with Five Angels, c. 1335', in Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, NGA Systematic Catalogue, online edition 2016 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Madonna and Child with Five Angels', 1943.4.45 · Google Arts & Culture, National Gallery of Art, 'Madonna and Child with Five Angels' · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection, K1435
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 11,904 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.