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Giotto di Bondone Madonna and Child, c. 1310 tempera on poplar panel, 85.4 × 61.8 cm Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D
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Painted in the same years as the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, this is the moment when Western painting broke with Byzantine convention: figures began to occupy space, faces began to hold emotion. The work passed through the collection of New York banker Henry Goldman before entering the Samuel H. Kress Collection — a trajectory that traces how Renaissance devotional painting migrated from Florentine altars to American museums.
The rose in Mary's hand is not decoration. It is a theological argument: she is identified with the Church as the bride of Christ. The Christ Child's gesture simultaneously signals divine mission and human attachment. This is not the most famous Giotto — it is the one that rewards looking.
Fine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
Giotto di Bondone, Madonna and Child, c. 1310–1315, tempera on poplar panel, 85.4 × 61.8 cm. Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Public domain.
Selected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.
