La Vierge à l'Enfant couronnée par deux anges

Pietro di Ruffolo's La Vierge à l'Enfant couronnée par deux anges (The Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels), painted around 1450 and now in the Louvre, is a devotional panel that combines the standard Madonna and Child image with the coronation iconography — two angels lower the crown of the Queen of Heaven onto the Virgin's head as she holds the infant Christ. Pietro di Ruffolo was a minor Italian painter whose few documented works span the border between the Abruzzi and Campania regions of Southern Italy, a zone peripheral to the great centers of Renaissance painting but with its own tradition of devotional art production.

Tempera on panel with gold ground. The Virgin is shown enthroned or standing with the Christ Child, while two symmetrically placed angels descend from above to place the crown on her head. The gold ground is tooled with punched patterns in the halos and background.