This early madonna is unusual in sano’s prolific career in that it shows not only the graceful linear forms that characterize sienese painting, but also the powerful effect of florentine realism in the pliant muscularity of the child and the sense of observed reality in the head of the madonna. The madonna of humility refers to images of the virgin seated modestly on the ground (usually, as here, on a cushion), emphasizing her humanity and motherhood, as opposed to the madonna enthroned, which presents her as the queen of heaven. Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: between 1440 and 1449. Place of creation: Italy. Dimensions: height: 53 cm (20.8 in); width: 36.2 cm (14.2 in). Medium: gold, panel, silver, tempera. Depicted People: Virgin Mary, Christ Child. Collection: Brooklyn Museum. Sano di Pietro Madonna of Humility
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