Virgin and Child enthroned with Angels

This panel depicting the Virgin and Child enthroned with angels, from around 1458, is associated with the Solly Collection — an early nineteenth-century English collection assembled by Edward Solly that was sold to the Prussian state in 1821 and became foundational to the Berlin museums. Its presence in this collection reflects the early nineteenth-century European interest in Italian primitive and early Renaissance panel painting as serious artistic objects rather than mere historical curiosities. Schiavone's work, typical of the Paduan school, was collected as part of the systematic acquisition of Italian panels that characterised this period of museum formation across Germany.

The addition of angels gives Schiavone more figures to demonstrate his capacity for grouping and varying poses within a unified spatial arrangement. They are rendered with the same sculptural precision as the main figures, their wings providing arching forms that enclose the composition above.