Artwork: Christ Enthroned with Angels in Adoration

Artist: Giovanni da Milano

Created: 1371

Medium: Tempera on panel

Dimensions: 152.3 x 68.5 cm

Location: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy

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“The beginning of the 14th century is marked by the Pre-Humanism period, which manifests itself in both literature and art, the followers of the current were Dante and Giotto. Giovanni da Milano works in an archaic, severe and religious style specific to painting from the second half of the 14th century.

Christ Enthroned with Angels in Adoration is the only painting the master paints in his hometown.

The painter is influenced by contemporary Lombard art (Rather than the Early Christian preference for symmetry, primary colours, and presentation of the world through a style of visual realism, including three-dimensional representation, Lombard art forms exploited asymmetry, colours such as orange, green, and purple, and flat abstraction).(1)

Christ is represented in the center on a compact and golden background, displaying a calm and firm attitude. The throne is decorated with lion’s heads, and around it are four angels presented in profile, frightened by the power of the Supreme Judge. The artist resumes the theme of immobility and the difference between the human and divine plan, specific to Byzantine painting.

The text of the book begins with the following sentence: “Ego sum alpha et omega.”

(Text by Costanza-Lillyanne Essco)