# Virgin and Child with Saints and Two Angels [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SANO di Pietro]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Tempera on wood, gold ground, 62 x 40 cm ## Commentary Sano di Pietro was a popular and highly prolific Sienese painter and illuminator, whose workshop produced numerous devotional images of the Madonna and Child, frequently shown in bust-length and accompanied by saints and angels. In the present work the Christ Child holds a goldfinch symbolizing the Resurrection, while resting his left hand on the embroidered collar of the Virgin's dress. They are accompanied by Sts Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, Anthony of Padua, and two angels. The design for the heads of the Virgin and Child reappears with some frequency in paintings by Sano's workshop, suggesting the use of a cartoon \(full-scale drawing\) to transfer the image. The frame is carved in five sections and engaged to the panel. The same punch tools used to decorate the frame were employed in the halos of the saints and angels. ## Related artworks - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Donna Perna Being Cured on Approaching St Bernardino's Body]() - [Flight to Egypt]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Anthony Abbott and Bernardino of Siena]() - [Madonna of Humility]() - [Marriage of the Virgin]() - [Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()