![]() ![]() Cimabue himself is depicted immediately in front of the Madonna wearing a laurel wreath upon his head. The Madonna is being carried from the studio of the Florentine artist Cimabue to the church of Santa Maria Novella. ![]() The picture shows a scene from the 16th century art historian Giorgio Vasari's description of the 13th century procession of an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child through the streets of Florence. Leighton House has an oil sketch for the painting, and several preparatory drawings. ![]() In 2018 it was displayed at the top of the Sainsbury Wing staircase. Since 1988 the work has been displayed in the National Gallery, London, on long-term loan from the Royal Collection, where it was long hung prominently, high above the main vestibule, directly beyond the entrance to the gallery, but more recently it has been in Room 45. Measuring more than two metres tall and more than five metres wide, the canvas was painted by Leighton from 1853 to 1855 in Rome as his first major work. Detail from Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna.Ĭimabue's Celebrated Madonna, originally called Cimabue's Madonna Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence, is an oil painting by English artist Frederic Leighton. ![]()
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