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Madonna and Child with Nine Angels

Segna di Buonaventura

ca. 1315

Madonna and Child with Nine Angels by Segna di Buonaventura

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

Left wing, overall, with engaged frame, 15 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. (38.4 x 27 cm); right wing, overall, with engaged frame, 15 x 10 5/8 in. (38.1 x 27 cm)

Classification

Paintings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Accession Number

1975.1.1

Tags

AngelsMadonna and Child

Art Historical Context

Nestled in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, *Madonna and Child with Angels* by Segna di Buonavent (active ca. 1290–1331) is a delicate diptych from around 1315. This Sienese master, influenced by the innovative Duccio di Buoninsegna, crafted these hinged panels—measuring about 15 x 10 ½ inches each—as a portable devotional object for private prayer. The tender depiction of the Virgin Mary cradling the Christ Child, surrounded by nine adoring angels, embodies the era's deep reverence for the sacred family, a motif central to Italian religious art. Painted in temp...

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