1470 · Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao

The monumentality of this work is due, among other things, to the architectural design of the throne of the Virgin. The upper section is crowned by a semicircular arch accommodating a scallop shell, which gives this Italianizing element the appearance of a niche. Its perspective lines converge at a vertical axis marked by the figure of the Virgin, on both sides of whom the remaining elements in the composition are symmetrically arranged.Show more