Madonna and Child, with Saints Lawrence and Julian

Madonna with Child and Two Angels from 1410 at the Philbrook Museum of Art is a devotional painting from Gentile's early maturity. The flanking angels add celestial splendor to the intimate mother-and-child group, combining courtly elegance with devotional warmth Gentile da Fabriano was the supreme exponent of International Gothic in Italy, creating works of extraordinary luxuriance in gilding, color, and surface ornament The Madonna and Child was the most ubiquitous devotional subject of medie

The figures are arranged with International Gothic grace, the rich coloring and ornamental details creating an effect of refined beauty characteristic of Gentile's decorative approach to sacred subjects.