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Date : near 1326
Sizes : 39 cm x 59 cm
Material : Tempera on canvas, Gold
Acquisition : Robert Lehman Collection (1975)
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Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Siena (Italy)
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This , together with a work depicting Saint Ansansus and a panel of Saint Andrew, formed part of an altarpiece commissioned by the civic government of Siena. The format of the polyptych was highly unusual in that the central image, the Madonna and Child, was the same size as the flanking panels, allowing the entire altarpiece, which was intended to be portable, to be easily folded and moved. In the fifteenth century, Simone's panels were incorporated as the central elements of a larger altarpiece in the principal chapel of the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena's town hall. Like the other two panels, the "Madonna and Child" survives with its original frame intact.
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