The Coronation of the Virgin (medallion)
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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About this painting
This small circle crowns an institution: the National Gallery reads the crowned Virgin of Italian painting as the Church. She takes the crown with her arms folded on her breast, a pose the Gallery's catalogue glosses as humility. The Church is crowned in the posture of a servant.
The Coronation, the Gallery notes, is "not described in the Bible". Its companion panel is a Crucifixion — told by all four Gospels — between the Virgin and Saint John. Both are roundels, each 18.2 centimetres across. The event nobody recorded was cut to the same circle as the one everybody did.
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.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,060 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.