Madonna and Child Enthroned with Twelve Angels, and with the Blessing Christ [middle panel] (1387)
Agnolo Gaddi
Tempera on Poplar Panel. Florentine, Gothic.
Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Most early paintings are also mystery stories, making the art historians who study them detectives of a sort. Signatures were not routine, and the inscriptions on this large altarpiece name the saints…