# Madonna and Child with Six Angels

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MASTER of Pratovecchio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-pratovecchio-r394111a6ce8ad2>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Tempera on wood, 65 x 43 cm

## Commentary

In Florence in the first half of the fifteenth century the market for devotional images was dominated by sculpture, not painting. Consequently, sculptural reliefs exerted a profound influence on painted compositions of the Madonna and Child. The present painting by the Master of Pratovecchio faithfully repeats the features of a terracotta relief by the sculptor Michele da Firenze, who worked on Ghiberti&#39;s first set of doors for the Florence Baptistery. The composition of the relief on which this painting is based has a strongly Gothic flavour, with the Virgin seated beneath a tent-like canopy, form the apex of which a half-length figure of God the Father emerges, with angels piled up at the sides.

## Related artworks

- [Madonna and Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-pratovecchio-r394111a6ce8ad2/madonna-and-child-r20b2302aed0f47>)
- [Pratovecchio Altarpiece \(lateral panels\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-pratovecchio-r394111a6ce8ad2/pratovecchio-altarpiece-lateral-panels-r6c01631da971fc>)
- [Pratovecchio Altarpiece: Virgin and St John the Evangelist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-pratovecchio-r394111a6ce8ad2/pratovecchio-altarpiece-virgin-and-st-john-the-evangelist-rabed111bedecab>)
- [The Three Archangels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-pratovecchio-r394111a6ce8ad2/the-three-archangels-refdc1dc9c39887>)

## Attribution

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