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Domenico Ghirlandaio, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, 1479, Tempera on wood, Cathedral of San Martino, Lucca

Iconographic Analysis: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio was an important late quattrocento Renaissance artist who created large and magnificent frescos. The son of a goldsmith, he was also the teacher of a young Michelangelo1. Ghirlandaio’s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints was painted for a church in Tuscany, and now rests in the Uffizi Museum in Florence. Completed in 1483 using tempera paint on wood, and standing at approximately six feet tall and wide, the painting is richly colored, highly symmetric, and densely packed with precise religious symbols and icons.
Filippo Lippi, Coronation of the Virgin, 1441-1447, Tempera on panel, Uffizi, Florence

Formal Analysis: Fra Filippo Lippi's Coronation of the Virgin

Fra Filippo Lippi was a friar artist that joined the trend of creating a more modern depiction of religious scenes of worship. Coronation of the Virgin, made between 1441 and 1447, was made as an altarpiece created for the church of Sant’Ambrogio, Florence. As opposed to the altarpieces that were made on separate panels and brought together as one piece via hinges, Lippi creates a single-paneled altarpiece, while still calling upon some traditional altarpiece styles.