madonna col bambino e angeli

This Madonna and Child with Angels by Andrea da Bologna, painted around 1360 and now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, exemplifies the devotional panel painting of the Bolognese school during the mid-fourteenth century. Andrea da Bologna was a significant local painter who helped maintain the artistic vitality of the Emilian capital during a period when Florentine and Sienese schools dominated Italian painting. His Madonnas blend local Bolognese traditions with influences absorbed from contact with both Tuscan and Venetian art.

Tempera and gold on panel. Andrea's style combines Bolognese figural solidity with an ornamental richness in the attendant angels and gold tooling, featuring the warm, saturated color palette characteristic of the Emilian Gothic tradition.