The Virgin sits on a slanting wooden throne with the Christ Child, while six kneeling angels, three on each side, seem to hold the throne aloft against a gold ground. A Florentine confraternity commissioned it in 1285 from the Sienese painter Duccio for Santa Maria Novella. It is the largest surviving thirteenth-century panel painting, and for centuries it was credited to Cimabue.
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The contract demanded costly ultramarine for Mary's robe, but conservators found cheaper azurite. The roundels on the frame show saints and Dominicans, among them Dominic and Thomas Aquinas.
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