LORENZO VENEZIANO
(active 1356-1372 in Venice)

The Madonna of Humility and The Crucifixion

1350s
Tempera on wood, 110 x 46 cm
Courtauld Gallery, London

The Madonna of Humility suckling the Child, sometimes with the sun as a brooch at her throat, was extremely common in the oeuvre of Lorenzo Veneziano and his workshop.