Fine Art and Landscape Authority. Located in the lower church of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Umbria, Italy, Madonna Enthroned with the Child, Four Angels and St Francis—otherwise ...

In Italy at the end of the 13th century, painting was shifting from the conventions of Byzantine art, with its characteristic ... panel painting shows the Madonna enthroned with the infant Jesus ...

A rare early Botticelli painting of the Virgin Mary, valued at £10.2 million, has been temporarily barred from export by the ...

Mr Tsitoghdzyan, 37, said he created the works of art to expose 'the ... through the Byzantine, Medieval and Early Renaissance periods the Madonna and Child was the most often produced pictorial ...