# Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [NARDO DI CIONE]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 197 x 100 cm ## Commentary Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints c. 1350 Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 197 x 100 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Nardo di Cione most likely painted this altarpiece for the most important church in Florence: the Duomo. The saints around the Virgin are Sts Zenobius, John the Baptist, Reparata and John the Evangelist. The cathedral housed the relics of St Zenobius and the city's original patron saint, Reparata - both depicted here. Nardo painted the altarpiece in the wake of the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which struck Florence in 1348 and took the lives of two-thirds of the population. For their post-plague compositions, he and his contemporaries returned to a Gothic tradition, evident here in the use of gold grounds, the traditional manner of representing the changeless luminosity of the eternal. ## Related artworks - [Christ Blessing]() - [Christ Blessing]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Five Saints]() - [Five Saints]() - [Hell \(detail\)]() - [Hell \(north wall\)]() - [Last Judgment \(detail of the blessed\)]() - [Last Judgment \(detail of the damned\)]() - [Last Judgment \(west wall\)]() - [Madonna and Child with Sts Peter and John the Evangelist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()