Madonna and Child

Master of the Magdalen

ca. 1280 · Tempera on wood · European Paintings

Painted in the 1280s, this head is a fragment of a large painting of the Madonna and Child (whose blessing hand and knee can be seen). The artist was a close follower of Cimabue, the principal painter in Florence before Giotto. It was not uncommon to excise the head of the Madonna from a venerated image and encase it in another work of art as a focus of devotion.

Artist: Master of the Magdalen
Date: ca. 1280
Medium: Tempera on wood
Department: European Paintings
Credit line: Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1964

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