{"id":2700,"date":"2024-02-05T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T11:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/?post_type=opera&#038;p=2700"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:45:31","slug":"madonna-and-child-with-saints-giovanni-da-rimini","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/madonna-and-child-with-saints-giovanni-da-rimini\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna and Child with St. Francis, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Augustine (?), St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This small panel, one of the earliest examples of work by a follower of Giotto in Rimini, depicts five saints in the lower register and the Virgin and Child in the upper register. The Virgin is based on a type known as the \u201cPelagonitissa\u201d or Virgin with the Playing Child, itself a variation on the so-called Eleousa Virgin or \u2018Virgin of Tenderness\u2019. This iconography, rare in Italy though widespread in Byzantine art, may hark back to a lost prototype in the Romagna region in the late 13th century.<\/p>\n<p>The painting reveals Giovanni da Rimini\u2019s early interest in the art of Giotto, who was working in the church of San Francesco in Rimini at the turn of the 13th century. Notice, for example, the artist\u2019s attempt to portray the depth of his setting in the way the angels hold up the cloth behind the Virgin, and to convey the volumes of his figures\u2019 bodies beneath their drapery.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo Volpe suggested that the panel may have been part of a diptych, the missing part of which may have portrayed the <em>Agony in the Garden<\/em>, as seen in a panel by the Master of Forli now in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (inv. no. 6314), while the presence of St. Francis and St. Clare may point to the panel having come from a convent of Franciscan friars or Poor Clares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2604,"template":"","tag-opera":[],"tecnica":[59],"class_list":["post-2700","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tecnica-tempera-on-wood"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7563,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2700\/revisions\/7563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-opera?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"tecnica","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tecnica?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}