Gentile da Fabriano, Madonna and Child (option 3)

Description

The present panel certainly represents the central element of the polyptych (it should be remembered that the complex was dismembered before 1836). In the cusp, in a tondo above two angels – and in turn surmounted by a seraph – appears the half-figure of the blessing Christ. In the dark background, the golden flowers stand out, which are not at all able to attenuate the delicate sweetness given by Gentile to this Madonna. An exquisiteness certainly deriving from the artist's strong ties with contemporary Florentine painting, the one still Gothic, even if already somewhat influenced by the powerful Masaccio winds.