Madonna col Bambino in gloria e Santi

Giovanni Francesco Caroto's Madonna in Glory with Saints belongs to this Veronese painter's production of altarpieces for Veronese and regional churches. Caroto, who trained under Andrea Mantegna before developing his own warmer, more Venetian-influenced style, was among Verona's most significant painters in the early sixteenth century. His Madonna in glory compositions place the Virgin in a heavenly mandorla above the assembled saints, the celestial and terrestrial zones connected through the visual experience of the altarpiece viewer below. The composition reflects his synthesis of Mantegnesque precision with the Venetian colorism he absorbed during his professional formation.

The devotional composition is rendered with attention to the expressive and contemplative qualities that served the painting's function as an aid to prayer and meditation.