# Virgin and Child with Six Saints

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PESELLINO](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Tempera on wood, gold ground, 23 x 20 cm

## Commentary

Pesellino specialized in delicately executed small-scale paintings ideal for private study or to carry for private devotion. Remarkably, despite their small size, the figures are described with a mastery that opens a new chapter in Florentine painting. Left to right the saints are: Anthony Abbot, Jerome, Cecilia, Catherine of Alexandria, Augustine, and George. The figure types and lighting reveal the influence of Fra Filippo Lippi, with whom Pesellino occasionally collaborated.

## Related artworks

- [Beheading of Sts Cosmas and Damian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/beheading-of-sts-cosmas-and-damian-r908914d12d1cd7>)
- [Christ on the Cross](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/christ-on-the-cross-r056c4a8d3f7328>)
- [Episode from the Story of Griselda \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/episode-from-the-story-of-griselda-detail-reb2f4a90a9bb4c>)
- [Episode from the Story of Griselda](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/episode-from-the-story-of-griselda-r6e513f802d32df>)
- [Episode from the Story of Griselda](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/episode-from-the-story-of-griselda-r864e38b826797a>)
- [King Melchior Sailing to the Holy Land](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/king-melchior-sailing-to-the-holy-land-r0d51ebd430d401>)
- [Madonna with Child \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/madonna-with-child-detail-r1faddf5021339e>)
- [Madonna with Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/madonna-with-child-r4ab8f514861aed>)
- [Predella scenes \(reconstruction\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/predella-scenes-reconstruction-r03650b0deab1d7>)
- [Sacra Conversazione](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/sacra-conversazione-ra4f59c774efdd6>)
- [Santa Trinità Altarpiece](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/santa-trinit-altarpiece-r06ae9794aa4aad>)
- [Seven Liberal Arts](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pesellino-r9bad8f97dfca75/seven-liberal-arts-rc3ba089b288b97>)

## Attribution

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