# Madonna Enthroned with Saints \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LIPPI, Fra Filippo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Tempera on wood ## Commentary Madonna Enthroned with Saints \(detail\) c. 1445 Tempera on wood Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence The detail shows Sts Francis and Damian. Sts Damian and Cosmas, to whom the chapel in the Santa Croce was dedicated, were the "personal" saints of Cosimo de' Medici. St Damian enacts a standard intercession gesture: he points to the Virgin and Child with one hand, and down with the other, toward a posited supplicant praying before the chapel altar - a position assumed by the beholder. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Child with Saints \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Child with Saints]() - [Adoration of the Child with Saints]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Announcement of the Death of the Virgin]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()