Pseudo Jacopino di Francesco
Madonna and Child, first half of the 14th century, tempera on panel
The work, which has come down to us with an irrelevant outer frame of late Gothic forms, is a replica of the Virgin Glykophilousa preserved in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence. The theme of the affectionate Virgin, caught as she is intent on exchanging a tender kiss with the Child, has Byzantine origins, but found considerable fortune in Western art as early as the first half of the 13th century.
