Maria mit dem Kinde und vier Engeln

Girolamo del Pacchia's Maria mit dem Kinde und vier Engeln (Madonna and Child with Four Angels), dated 1505 and now in the Bavarian State Painting Collections, is a devotional panel that represents the Sienese tradition of Marian imagery at a moment of transition between the Gothic refinement of the earlier Sienese school and the High Renaissance figure ideals arriving from Florence and Rome. The format — Madonna enthroned with attendant angels — was among the most enduring in Italian devotional painting, traceable from Duccio and Cimabue through to the early sixteenth century. Del Pacchia's version absorbs the Raphaelesque grace of the Umbrian-Florentine Madonna type while retaining the characteristic Sienese warmth of color and the delicate emotional refinement that had always distinguished the Sienese approach to Marian devotion from the more monumental Florentine manner.

Del Pacchia paints the Madonna and angels with the graceful, softly modeled figures of the Sienese High Renaissance — warm flesh tones, harmonious drapery colors, and the delicate beauty of the angel types influenced by Raphael's angelic figures. The composition achieves the serene, celestial quality appropriate to the subject, with the angels' arrangement around the Madonna creating a gentle devotional atmosphere of celestial court.