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Madonna of the Pit

Anonymous

Displayed in:

MUNDA - National Museum of Abruzzo

MUNDA - National Museum of Abruzzo

Via Tancredi da Pentima, L'Aquila

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The seated Virgin, perfectly frontal, wears a red tunic and a golden mantle with black decorations on the edge. She has parted hair that can be seen under a white veil that falls on her shoulders. She wears a crown on her head. The Virgin supports with her left hand, standing on her knee, the blessing Child, who wears a green tunic and a golden mantle. The group is contained within a tabernacle with a triangular plan, decorated at the top with a starry sky, in the middle with a red and silver damask drapery resembling a dorsal, and at the bottom with a Cosmatesque-type seat on which the Virgin seems to be sitting. On the panels, now lost, that originally closed the tabernacle were depicted, on the right: the Crucifixion, the Flagellation, and the Kiss of Judas, on the left: the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Presentation at the Temple, the only remaining panel currently preserved in the Museum. The work is attributed to an unknown painter identified by the conventional name of Maestro di Fossa, active in southern Umbria and Abruzzo in the first half of the 14th century. The stolen panels that closed the tabernacle were painted with scenes from the life of Christ. On the left: The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi, The Presentation at the Temple; on the right: The Crucifixion, The Flagellation, The Kiss of Judas. Only the fragment with the scene of the Presentation at the Temple has been recovered and is displayed in the Museum. The panels have also been attributed to the Maestro di Fossa, to whom several works in Spoleto and private collections have subsequently been associated.
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Title: Madonna of the Pit

Author: Anonymous

Date: 14th century.

Technique: Carved and painted wood

Displayed in: MUNDA - National Museum of Abruzzo

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