The precious altarpiece commissioned in 1502 by the Gonfaloniere and the Priors of Prato to decorate the Audience of the Town Hall, from the famous painter from Prato, son of Fra Filippo. A meditative and suspended atmosphere is recreated in the precious table, in a livid, stormy light, which accentuates shadows and contrasts in the sweet, bloodless figures, intimately gathered in the foreground, between which a silent conversation of glances is established. Even the landscape with ruins seems to participate in the climate of dramatic religiosity that blows from the altarpiece.
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Title:Madonna and Child with Saints (Pala dell'Udienza)