Madonna and Child with Saints

Abstract

This glazed terracotta altarpiece, currently housed in Santa Margherita in Montefiascone, comes from the Benedictine monastery in Montefiascone and was made by Benedetto Buglioni in the late 15th C. The Madonna and Child, seated in an elegant throne, are crowned by angels and flanked by two saints (St. Benedict and a female martyr, possibly St. Margaret). In the predella, scenes from the lives of Mary and her parents (the Annunciation on the left; the Annunciation to Joachim, the Meeting at the Golden Gate, and the Expulsion from the Temple in the middle; and the Nativity on the right) are interposed with two scenes from the lives of Benedict and the female martyr. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.