Every Day a Painting for October 23, 2026

Madonna and Child, with the Blessing Christ [middle panel] (1340)

Pietro Lorenzetti

Tempera on Panel Transferred To Canvas. Sienese, Gothic.

Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Pietro Lorenzetti of Siena painted me in 1340 . This inscription is the signature of the Sienese painter Pietro Lorenzetti , which survives on a fragment of the original frame (now incorporated in a m…

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