The Virgin and Child

A second Virgin and Child panel by Schiavone in the National Gallery collection suggests this work relates to the enthroned version while functioning as a smaller devotional piece or a separate commission. The format of the Virgin and Child without a throne — more intimate, less ceremonially framed — invites a different emotional register from the formal Maestà type. Schiavone's Paduan training under Squarcione is again evident in the sculptural quality of the figures, though the smaller and more personal scale may have softened his typically austere compositional approach.

Without the architectural frame of a throne, this composition places the two figures in closer proximity. Schiavone may soften his characteristic angularity slightly to suit the intimate subject while retaining the fundamental sculptural modelling of the Squarcione workshop tradition.