# The Madonna Enthroned [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROMANESQUE PAINTER, Catalan]() - Date: 1101-1150 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary The Madonna Enthroned c. 1123 Fresco Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona This mural was removed from the wall of the apse in the church of Santa Maria at Tahull. The Santa Maria was the sister church of San Clemente in the same Catalonian town and likewise consecrated in 1123. The Madonna represents a Byzantine type of the depiction of Mary: the "nikopoia" \(the bringer of victory\). The nikopoia takes the form of a stringently symmetrical composition, with the child seated in the centre, as if himself enthroned in his enthroned mother's lap. This fresco was executed by the chief master of San Clemente. ## Related artworks - [Christ Pantocrator]() - [Christ Pantocrator]() - [Majestas Domini with Evangelists and Saints \(detail\)]() - [Majestas Domini with Evangelists and Saints \(detail\)]() - [Murder of the Innocents in Bethlehem]() - [The Annunciation to the Shepherds]() - [The Fight between David and Goliath \(detail\)]() - [The Fight between David and Goliath]() - [View of the interior]() - [View of the interior]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()