# Madonna and Child, in Lorenzo Monaco

Lorenzo Monaco painted this in 1413, aged 43. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> The Virgin, in a midnight-blue robe scattered with golden stars, supports the Christ Child as he stands on her knee, one hand holding her sky-blue scarf and the other a scroll with the words “EGO S…”, the beginning of a Latin declaration, “I am…”.

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## The work

- Date: 1413
- Medium: tempera on panel
- Dimensions: painted surface: 113.5 × 52.8 cm (44 11/16 × 20 13/16 in.) overall: 116.3 × 55.6 cm (45 13/16 × 21 7/8 in.) framed: 127 x 66.2 x 11.4 cm (50 x 26 1/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1943.4.13
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Lorenzo Monaco](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/lorenzo-monaco), Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?)

Lorenzo Monaco, “Lorenzo the Monk”, took vows at the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, a centre of manuscript illumination.

3 works in the collection.

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