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The Coronation of the Virgin (medallion)
c. 1440–1450 · Tempera e oro su tavola (tempera and gold on panel) · Museo di San Marco, Firenze (Museo Nazionale di San Marco)
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A crown is lowered an inch, and heaven holds still for it. Our Lady bows beneath it, one hand at her breast, and the red stars keep their places in the blue. The National Gallery notes that the Coronation is not described in the Bible, and reads the crowned Virgin of Italian painting as the Church. Fra Angelico painted this roundel, 18.2 centimetres across, around 1440 to 1450, and San Marco pairs it with a Crucifixion between the Virgin and Saint John, a scene told by all four Gospels. The scene Scripture leaves untold is kept beside one told four times. A crown, a hand, a bowed head.
Sources: Palazzo Strozzi / Museo di San Marco, Beato Angelico, exhibition checklist, entries 9.6a-9.6b · Museo di San Marco, 'Beato Angelico visto da ...' video series, item 8 (Anna Soffici) · National Gallery, London, Glossary: Coronation of the Virgin · D. Gordon, National Gallery Catalogues: The Italian Paintings before 1400 (2011) · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), the four Passion narratives.