Episode 4 - A Vision of Eternity
Madonna and Child, Before 600 CE
Santa Maria Antiqua al Foro Romano, Rome
Master of the Magdalen, Madonna and Child Enthroned, c. 1275
Tempera on wood, gold ground
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)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Luca Signorelli, Madonna and Child, ca. 1505–7
Oil and gold on wood, 20 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (51.4 x 47.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Madonna Salus Populi Romani, Before 600 CE
Tempera and gold on cedar panel, 46 x 31 in. (117 x 79 cm)
Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Bernardo Daddi, La Madonna del Magnificat, 1335-37
Tempera and gold on panel
Vatican Museums
Bernardo Daddi, The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul, c 1335
Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 47 7/8 × 44 1/2 inches (121.6 × 113 cm)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Workshop of Bernardo Daddi, Madonna and Child, 1345-1349
tempera and gold on panel, 27 5/16 x 18 7/16 in. (69.3 x 46.8 x 2 cm)
Walters Art Museum. Baltimore
Bernardo Daddi, Virgin And Child With A Goldfinch, 1345-1348
Tempera on panel , 38 11/16 X 21 7/8 Inches (98.2 X 55.6 cm)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Recommended Reading
David Bomford, et al, Art in the Making: Italian Painting before 1400, National Gallery, London, 1989
Spike Bucklow, The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets of the Middle Ages, Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd., 2009
Cennino Cennini, Il Libro dell' Arte, (early 15th century) English translation by Daniel Thompson first published by Yale University Press, 1933