Madonna
Thor Heyerdahl
Custodia
Rubi
Morcilla
Blood Sausage
Rutherford B. Hayes
Yásara
Machu Picchu
Psalm 1:4
"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away."
Prov.31:10
"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
Madonna and Child
Simone Martini
(Italian, Siena, active by 1315–died 1344 Avignon)
This beautifully preserved panel, together with a related work depicting
Saint Ansanus in the Robert Lehman Collection (1975.1.13) and a third
panel of Saint Andrew (41.100.23), formed part of an altarpiece
commissioned by the civic government of Siena. The format of the
polyptych was highly unusual in that the central image, the Madonna and
Child, was the same size as the flanking panels, allowing the entire
altarpiece, which was intended to be portable, to be easily folded and
moved. In the fifteenth century, Simone's panels were incorporated as
the central elements of a larger altarpiece in the principal chapel of
the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena's town hall. Like the other two panels from
this polyptych in the Museum's collection, the "Madonna and Child"
survives with its original frame intact.
Machu Picchu, Peru
Chess: "Thor Heyerdahl" "Rutherford B. Hayes" "Yásara" "Machu Picchu" "Madonna" "Morcilla" "Blood Sausage" "Custodia" "Rubi" "Holy Grail"
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