Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saint

Lippo d'Andrea's Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints at Yale University Art Gallery, painted around 1420, presents a sacra conversazione in the conservative Florentine manner. Lippo d'Andrea was a Florentine painter who maintained the traditions of Lorenzo Monaco and the Camaldolese scriptorium The Virgin Mary occupied a central place in late medieval and Renaissance piety, venerated as intercessor and Queen of Heaven, her image produced in countless devotional objects for public and private

The enthroned Madonna with flanking saints follows the standard Florentine altarpiece format, rendered in careful tempera on gold ground with the refined technique and decorative quality associated with the Lorenzo Monaco workshop tradition.