Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels (Botticelli)

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Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels
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Artist Sandro Botticelli
Year14851490
MediumTempera on panel
LocationBaltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels is a tondo or round painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, completed between 1485 and 1490. It is housed in the Baltimore Museum of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland.

This work illustrates the Madonna with a young Jesus accompanied by five angels.

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