Madonna and Child with Six Saints (Sant Ambrogio Altarpiece)
Sandro Botticelli
- Price: Price on Request
- Art Type: Various Paintings
- Size:
- English Comments: 0
- International Comments: 0
- Creating Date:
- Introduction and Works of Sandro Botticelli >>
Contemporary-Art.org
Work Overview
- Madonna and Child with Six Saints (Sant'Ambrogio Altarpiece)
Artist Sandro Botticelli
Year c. 1470
Medium Tempera on panel
Dimensions 167 cm × 195 cm (66 in × 77 in)
Location Uffizi, Florence
The Madonna and Child with Six Saints, also known as Sant'Ambrogio Altarpiece, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished around 1470. It is housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi, in Florence.
It portrays the Virgin enthroned with the saints Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Alexandria and, kneeling, Cosmas and Damian (patrons of the House of Medici). It is in fact most likely[1] that the latter are portraits of Medici members. Lorenzo il Magnifico and his brother Giuliano have been considered.
Masterwork of the young Botticelli, this painting takes name from the Florentine convent of Sant'Ambrogio, where it was placed in 1808 before the transfer to Accademia and Uffizi galleries.
This type of altar painting is called a Sacra Conversazione, and it shows the enthroned Madonna surrounded by saints. To the left are Mary Magdalene with the ointment jar and St John the Baptist wearing furs, and to the right are St Francis of Assisi in the Franciscans' habit and Catherine of Alexandria with her wheel. The two kneeling saints, Cosmas and Damian, were patron saints of both the Medicis and doctors and pharmacists.
- Copyright Statement:
All the reproduction of any forms about this work unauthorized by Singing Palette including images, texts and so on will be deemed to be violating the Copyright Laws.
To cite this webpage, please link back here.
- >> English Comments
- >> Chinese Comments
- >> French Comments
- >> German Comments
- >>Report
- Pallas and the centaur
- The Calumny of Apelles
- Killing the woman (The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti - second episode)
- Nastagio meets the woman and the knight in the pine forest of Ravenna (The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti - first episode)
- The Birth Of Venus
- Primavera
- Discovery of murder Holophernes
- The banquet in the forest (The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti - third episode)
- Madonna And Child With An Angel 2
- Sandro Portrait of a young man
- Portrait of a young man
- Madonna In Glory With Seraphim
- The Temptation of Christ
- The Discovery Of The Murder Of Holofernes
- The Cestello Annunciation
- Adoration of The Magi
- Madonna della Loggia (Madonna and Child)
- Marriage of Nastagio degli Onesti (The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti - fourth episode)
- The Trials of Moses (The Youth of Moses)
- Madonna and Child with Six Saints (Sant Ambrogio Altarpiece)
- Portrait of a young man 1483
- Madonna And Child With An Angel
- Portrait of an young woman
- Venus and Mars
- Punishment of the Rebels (The Punishment of the Sons of Corah)
- Adoration Of The magi
- Madonna of the Rose Garden
- Simonetta
- Virgin and Child with an Angel (Our Lady of the Eucharist)
- Madonna And Child And Two Angels
- The Return Of Judith To Bethulia
- The Mystical Nativity
- Fortitude
- Sixtus II
- Guliano de Medici
- Madonna of the Book (The Virgin and Child)
- The Virgin And Child With Two Angels
- Madonna of The Magnificat
- Madonna with Child and five angels (The Virgin and Child surrounded by Five Angels)
Partnering Galleries
Global galleries, museums, and art institutions are welcome to join with us, to promote the artworks of your artists represented.
Latest Joiners
Copyrights Reserved © 2008 - .
Singing Palette