Keywords: Traini, Francesco, Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, 1340-45.jpg en Francesco Traini Italian active 1321 “1345 Madonna and Child with Saint Anne 1340 “45 Tempera on wood panel transferred to pressed wood panel 84 9 x 56 0 cm 33 7/16 x 22 1/16 in frame 101 3 x 76 5 x 14 6 cm 39 7/8 x 30 1/8 x 5 3/4 in Bequest of Frank Jewett Mather Jr y1963-2 Francesco Traini was the most important artist in mid-fourteenth-century Pisa This panel formed the center of an altarpiece in a monastery outside the city; related panels are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts Nancy and the Nationalmuseum Stockholm The Madonna and Child with Saint Anne is an unusual subject for the time; this is one of the first Italian images of Mary ™s mother based on oral traditions compiled in the early thirteenth century in The Golden Legend Anne a hieratic otherworldly figure protects the intimate embrace of mother and child To focus attention on key elements in the painting Traini used pastiglia work raised designs in gesso plaster that are painted or gilded The goldfinch eating millet grain symbolic of Jesus ™s Passion and the Child ™s coral necklace intended to ward off evil are executed in this technique The small donor figure a Benedictine nun was apparently added later since she is painted over Saint Anne ™s robe 1340-45 Princeton University Art Museum Francesco Traini other versions PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard European art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1340 European paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1340 Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1340 Francesco Traini Altars of Madonna and Child with Saint Anne |