Virgin and Child Playing with a Goldfinch and Holding a Sheaf of Millet  1379

Cecco di Pietro is a typical artist from the early Italian Renaissance. The figures are stylised and have little volume. The surroundings are without depth or perspective. These features tie the motif to the surface and lift it out of the flow of time. [br] The gold ground symbolically denotes that we are in a realm beyond ours, in Heaven. As was common in art at the tim...