Madonna con il Bambino e quattro angeli

This Madonna and Child with Four Angels by the Master of Badia a Isola, painted around 1315, is the work of an anonymous Sienese painter named after a painting in the abbey church of Badia a Isola near Colle di Val d'Elsa. Working in the generation of Duccio, this master represents the broader Sienese painting tradition that surrounded and was shaped by the city's leading artists. Now in the Cini Palace Gallery, Venice, the panel demonstrates the refined devotional art produced by Siena's numerous anonymous workshop painters.

Egg tempera and gold on panel with four attendant angels flanking the Madonna in a symmetrical composition. The Master of Badia a Isola's style reflects Duccio's influence in the soft facial modeling and graceful poses, with elaborate gold-ground tooling and rich ultramarine blue.