Virgin and Child Enthroned by Buonaccorso in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Virgin and Child Enthroned with a Bishop Saint, Saint John the Baptist, and Four Angels
about 1380
Niccolò di Buonaccorso, Italian (Sienese), active about 1370–died in 1388

Dimensions: 46.3 x 31.7 cm (18 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

Medium or Technique: Tempera on panel

Classification: Paintings
Type: Religious - Saints; Arched

Accession Number: 20.1860

This is probably the central section of portable triptych (three-part altarpiece) whose wings are now missing. The artist maintained the dedication to sinuous line-pioneered by Duccio and seen here in the hems of the draperies-but added highly textured effects of patterned cloth through a lavish use of gold.

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/virgin-and-child-enthroned...