Coronation of the Virgin

religious

This is the centre panel of an altarpiece. Two panels depicting four standing saints (Sts Peter, James, Bartholomew, and Anthony Abbot) in Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa, are suggested to be on the right-hand side, other parts are not identified. The composition of the centre panel follows that of Giotto's Coronation of the Virgin in the Baroncelli Chapel of half century earlier.

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About the Artist

Agnolo Gaddi

1350 – 1396

Florentine painter, the son of Taddeo Gaddi. He continued the Giotto tradition but modified it still further in the direction of decorative elegance. He is particularly notable for his cool pale colours, which infiuenced the refined late Gothic art of artists of the next generation such as Lorenzo Monaco. Agnolo's works include frescos on The Story of the Cross in the chancel of Sta Croce (after 1374) and on The Story of the Virgin and her Girdle in the Chapel of the Holy Girdle in Prato Cathedral (1392-5). Many panel paintings also are attributed to Agnolo.

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