Madonna and Child with Angels
Medium
Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood
Dimensions
Diameter 38 3/4 in. (98.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Accession Number
14.40.635
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the tender *Madonna and Child with Angels* by Domenico Ghirlandaio a masterful Florentine Renaissance painter renowned for vivid frescoes and intricate portraits. This circular tondo, measuring nearly 39 inches in diameter, captures the Virgin Mary cradling the infant Christ, surrounded by ethereal angels in a moment of divine intimacy. Ghirlandaio's style blends the meticulous detail of the early Renaissance with a growing sense of naturalism, influenced by contemporaries like Botticelli. Painted in tempera—a luminous egg-based medium on a wooden panel later transferred to canvas for ...