Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, Lippo Memmi, ca. 1350

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Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels, ca. 1350, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall, with shaped top and engaged (partially modern) frame, 26 1/4 x 13 in. ( x 33 cm); painted surface 19 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. ( x cm); predella 1 1/2 x 10 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) (Italian, Sienese, active by 1317–died 1356), This panel formed a diptych with a Crucifixion. The Madonna and Child are flanked by diminutive figures of Saints John the Baptist and Francis of Assisi while the nine choirs of heavenly angels—as described by the fifth-century neo-platonic writer known as the Pseudo-Dionysius—ornament the pinnacle

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