Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Mary Magdalene and Nicolas of Bari; Christ Crucified with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist (1400s): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Mary Magdalene and Nicolas of Bari; Christ Crucified with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist (1400s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Sano di Pietro (Italian, 1406–1481).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The artist covered the sides and reverse of this panel with a thin layer of gesso (a type of plaster), allowing the texture of the rough wood to remain visible. He then painted it to resemble porphyry, a beautiful and valuable stone.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Mary Magdalene and Nicolas of Bari; Christ Crucified with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist
• Date: 1400s
• Creator attribution: Sano di Pietro (Italian, 1406–1481)
• Culture: Italy, Siena
• Type: Painting
• Technique: tempera and gold on wood
• Dimensions: Image: 46 x 21.4 cm (18 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.); Framed: 58.2 x 28 x 4.8 cm (22 15/16 x 11 x 1 7/8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1924.199

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. B. P. Bole, Mr. and Mrs. Guerdon S. Holden, Mrs. Windsor T. White, and the L. E. Holden Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• W. M. M. “A Sienese Painting by Sano Di Pietro.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 4 (April 1924): 74–77.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.

View the collection record

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