Shop art print and framed art The Madonna di Ognissanti by Giotto di Bondone

The Madonna of Ognissanti or of All the Saints (in Italian Maestà di Ognissanti) is a work by the painter Giotto di Bondone, painted in tempera and gold on wood between 1300 and 1303, created for the Ognissanti church in Florence, which gives it its name. It has monumental dimensions: 325 × 204 cm. It is kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, where it is displayed in close proximity to two benchmark altarpieces: Cimabue's Maestà di Santa Trinita and Duccio's Madonna Rucellai. This altarpiece was probably painted by the master on his return from Assisi; some critics place it a little later, after Giotto's various travels, around 1314-1315, after the frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel in Padua, when it became so well known that Dante made the famous mention in the Divine Comedy (Purgatorio, XI, 94-96), in which, referring to the ephemeral nature of fame, he mentions how Giotto's has now eclipsed that of the master Cimabue. Despite conflicting opinions on the autograph, it is considered by all critics to be an autograph masterpiece of the highest quality and of great importance in Giotto's artistic career, as well as in the development of the iconography of the Madonna in Majesty. The first mention of the work dates back to 1418, when the altar where it is located in Ognissanti, the last on the right, was dedicated to a certain Francesco di Benozzo. The first reference to Giotto as the author of the painting is by Lorenzo Ghiberti who, in his Commentaries, describes a "very [...]

 

This artwork is a photography from the renaissance period. It belongs to the italian renaissance style.

 

« The Madonna di Ognissanti » is kept at 1310.

 

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