# Virgin and Child with Two Angels

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## Artwork

- Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139>)
- Date: 1251-1300
- Technique: Egg tempera on wood, 37 x 27 cm

## Commentary

This panel is the left wing of a diptych. The right wing depicting the Crucifixion is in the Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. Both panels have the same cross resembling the emblem of Pisa, painted on the reverse. The diptych is one of the earliest devotional panels in which the Crucifixion is not a narrative but invites theological contemplation.

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- [Altar frontal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139/altar-frontal-rdbf4351abd8de4>)
- [Altarpiece \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139/altarpiece-detail-r4fc7429ea0b8ac>)
- [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139/altarpiece-of-st-clare-detail-r1b859e29c36f86>)
- [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139/altarpiece-of-st-clare-detail-r7fb1042dbf3092>)
- [Altarpiece of St Clare](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139/altarpiece-of-st-clare-r1b4596c2892d6d>)
- [Altarpiece of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139/altarpiece-of-the-magi-rf75f8b935d472d>)
- [Altarpiece](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-italian-r475e5f0990c139/altarpiece-r4c8b3d2283b007>)

## Attribution

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