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Sano di Pietro
The Madonna & Child
Tempera on panel, in an engaged frame, 32 x 26 cm, Inscribed on the reverse in 17th-century calligraphy pen: "1640 26 settembre / Donata a me Bernardino Lippi / dalla famiglia della Signora Roberta e dello Signore / Pietro Mansi, mia dilettissima / e amorevolissima nonna / Pietro della Francesca"
Painted after 1450 and conceived for private devotion, this panel epitomises the enduring Sienese Gothic tradition; with its gold ground delicately tooled with punchwork, the integrated original frame, and the tender, affectionate exchange between the crowned Virgin and Child. In its clarity of form and emotional directness, this painting is an example of the iconographic language that shaped artistic production in Siena in the decades following the death of Sassetta, standing as a refined witness to the city’s distinctive response to the challenges of the early Renaissance.
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