maestà

(Italian: “majesty”). A painting of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child enthroned and surrounded by a celestial court of angels and saints. Pronunciation here.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Maestà. Tempera on wood. Ca. 1335. Museo di Arte Sacra, Massa Marittima, Italy.

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