Madonna with Child and Angels

Pseudo-Pier Francesco Fiorentino was a Florentine workshop painter whose numerous Madonna paintings were long attributed to Pier Francesco Fiorentino. This Madonna with Child and Angels from around 1487 belongs to the vast production of devotional images that Florentine workshops churned out for a seemingly insatiable market. Such works provided affordable devotional images for the city's middle-class households. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting.

Tempera on panel following standard Florentine workshop formulas for Madonna compositions. The competent but formulaic execution reflects the high-volume production methods of minor Florentine workshops.