Virgin and Child with Four Angels and the Redeemer

Zanobi Strozzi's Virgin and Child with Four Angels and the Redeemer, painted around 1450 for the Brooklyn Museum, presents a devotional composition in the manner of Fra Angelico. The inclusion of the blessing Redeemer above the Madonna creates a theological program linking the Incarnation with Christ's salvific mission. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting. The tension between Gothic grace and Renaissance structure gives art of this period a distinctive energy.

The panel combines the central Madonna group with the half-length Christ above, rendered in Strozzi's refined tempera technique with the luminous color palette and careful gold tooling inherited from his training under Fra Angelico.