Jacopo di Cione (Italian, c. 1325–c. 1398)
Madonna and Child with Saints, 1391
Tempera and gilding on panel
Gift of Anna Rice Cooke, 1928 (2834)
In this devotional painting, Christ is depicted as the
King of Heaven with the Virgin Mary acts as a his
throne for Christ, who is depicted as the King of
Heaven. Christ, resembling more a grown small man
rather than an infant child, he offers a blessing with his
right hand and holds a goldfinch, the symbol of his
suffering Passion, in his left. Like other 14th-century
artists, Jacopo di Cione, like other 14th-century Italian
artists, was influenced by the the advances in pictorial
naturalism that occurred throughout his lifetime. This
work demonstrates shows the artist’s attempt
at awareness of linear perspective—, particularly along
the floor tiles of the central panel—, and as well as his
interest in modeling figures with a sense of mass and
volume, both of which help the composition to appear
more suggest three dimensionality
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