ALESSO DI BENOZZO
(b. 1473, Firenze, d. 1528, Firenze)

Madonna and Child

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Tempera on panel, 34 x 25 cm
Private collection

The painting depicts the Madonna and Child before a cloth-of-honour held aloft by two angels. The composition can be associated with Benozzo Gozzoli's Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, which also shows the Christ Child blessing seated on his mother's lap, before a cloth-of-honour held aloft by two angels.