Davis Madonna
Davis Madonna (c. 1410) by Gentile da Fabriano
The painting before restoration
The Davis Madonna is a c.1410 tempera on panel painting by Gentile da Fabriano, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is named after Theodore M. Davis who acquired it in Florence early in the 20th century before leaving it to its present owner in 1915.[1]
It is a variant on the artist's Perugia Madonna, painted just before it. The 'plant throne' merges the iconography of the Maestà's throne with the Madonna of Humility sat on the earth. At the base are small musical angels and a scroll bearing the Regina caeli, an Easter antiphon.
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