Triptych by the Master of the Magdalen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2009

Artist: Master of the Magdalen (Italian, Florentine, active 1265–95)

Title: Madonna and Child Enthroned

Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

Dimensions: Central panel 16 x 11 1/8 in. (40.6 x 28.3 cm); left wing 15 x 5 5/8 in. (38.1 x 14.3 cm); right wing 15 x 5 1/2 in. (38.1 x 14 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941

Accession Number: 41.100.8

Notes:

The central panel of this triptych shows the Madonna and Child enthroned between Saints Paul and Peter, and, in the upper corners, the Annuciation. The scenes depicted on the the left wing are, from top to bottom, Christ in Majesty, the Last Supper, and the Betrayal of Christ. Those on the right wing are, from top to bottom, the Crucifixion, the Way to Calvary, and the Flagellation.

The Master of the Magdalen is the name given by Osvald Sirén to the painter of a panel in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence representing Saint Mary Magdalen and eight episodes of her life, and of a group of Florentine paintings of the second half of the thirteenth century related to this picture [see Sirén, "Toskanische Maler im XIII. Jahrhundert," Berlin, 1922, pp. 264–75].

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