Product：Botticelli's The Virgin Mary

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Transaction Price：USD 48,480,000

Specification：Diameter 62.9 cm

Auction Time：11-Nov-Wed

Auction Company：Christie\'s in New York

This noble depiction of the Virgin, Child, and Three Angels by Sandro Botticelli, with its serene, lazy image, bright color palette, and rich gilding, is celebrated by the artist at the Uffizi Art Museum in Florence, known as the "Virgin Mary".
 

This painting is likely commissioned by a wealthy sponsor and intended to be hung domestically for personal dedication and contemplation. It is rarely known outside the UK and was exhibited twice in the National Gallery, with a long-term loan from 1960 to 1978, and later as part of the Renaissance Florence exhibition from 1999 to 2000. In the past forty years, it has been collected by two of the greatest private collections of our time.
 

The Tondo format formed by Botticelli is a special expertise of the most successful and creative painters in these circular panels. Botticelli must have found a special excitement in the painting challenges created by this form. A painting like this will be hung high, above the horizontal line of the eye, intended to imitate a convex mirror, with the composition slightly expanding at the center and receding at the edge. Few artists can so understand the limitations of Tongduo and create such a profound symbolic harmony in composition.