# Virgin and Child Enthroned

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SANO di Pietro](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06>)
- Date: 1401-1450
- Technique: Tempera on panel, gold ground, 150 x 58 cm

## Commentary

The Virgin and Child are shown seated on a ledge. What would normally be the backrest of the throne behind them is substituted instead by two red seraphim. Above them Christ is shown as the Redeemer, holding the New Testament in one hand and raising the other hand in blessing. This panel formed the central part of a now dismembered polyptych flanked by depictions of saints.

## Related artworks

- [Angel of the Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/angel-of-the-annunciation-rceee9e52a1bb0d>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/assumption-of-the-virgin-detail-r0ded33216e1e2c>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/assumption-of-the-virgin-detail-r5009e0253ae018>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/assumption-of-the-virgin-r5e9faec22c777c>)
- [Beheading of St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/beheading-of-st-john-the-baptist-r172d5b89bd7281>)
- [Birth of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/birth-of-the-virgin-ra6095f87d38955>)
- [Donna Perna Being Cured on Approaching St Bernardino&#39;s Body](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/donna-perna-being-cured-on-approaching-st-bernardinos-body-r0a4ebe98b78e32>)
- [Flight to Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/flight-to-egypt-rc0d095c2d0607b>)
- [Madonna and Child with Sts Anthony Abbott and Bernardino of Siena](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/madonna-and-child-with-sts-anthony-abbott-and-bernardino-of-siena-r33003b9fc1be69>)
- [Madonna of Humility](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/madonna-of-humility-r6f255cd1835bb0>)
- [Marriage of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/marriage-of-the-virgin-rccf30545735bb7>)
- [Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/sano-di-pietro-r6bc5576fff6b06/presentation-of-the-virgin-at-the-temple-r0e76bceb0c4988>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)