Madonna and child with saints

The Master of the Panzano Triptych, an anonymous Florentine painter named after a triptych formerly in the church of Panzano in Chianti, created this Madonna and Child with Saints around 1387. This conventional name groups works by a painter working in the orbit of the Orcagna workshop tradition in late Trecento Florence. Now at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, this devotional panel reflects the continued demand for traditional sacra conversazione compositions in Tuscan churches during the late Gothic period.

Painted in egg tempera and gold leaf on panel, this Madonna and Child with Saints displays the solid figure types and measured composition characteristic of the Florentine Orcagna workshop tradition. The gold ground is elaborately tooled with punch-work patterns, and the saints flanking the central group are differentiated through their iconographic attributes and individualized drapery.