Triptych

The Triptych was created by Agnolo Gaddi in 1388, executed in paint on poplar wood and panel. According to its documented inception, the work was completed in that year as a religious painting depicting the Madonna and Child with multiple saints.

The work is held in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, where it is part of the Italian painting 13th–15th-century collection and displayed in room 40. It entered the museum through the Solly Collection, which supplied the Gemäldegalerie with a significant body of early Italian panel paintings during the 19th century.

No further details on the original commission, patron, or intermediate ownership prior to the Solly Collection are recorded in the available sources.

The Triptych by Agnolo Gaddi, painted in 1388, resides in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin and is catalogued under the Solly Collection, Italian painting 13.-15th-century room 40. Executed on poplar panel with paint, the work portrays Mary, the Christ Child, John the Evangelist, John the Baptist, St. James the Elder, Bartholomew the Apostle, the Madonna and Child, John Chrysostom, Gregory I, and other saints. Its dimensions measure 70 cm in height and 186 cm in width.

Created in 1394, the Triptych is a painted work on three panels linked by gold framing, now part of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin’s collection. The central image shows a woman with an infant, flanked by kneeling angels, while six robed figures bearing books or scrolls stand in the surrounding space. The composition is set against a dark backdrop illuminated by gold arches and a luminous blue sky.

Produced at the close of the 14th century, the piece reflects the transitional phase between the Gothic and early Renaissance in Italy. Its iconography and compositional format align with contemporary devotional panels intended for private or chapel use, illustrating the continued influence of Byzantine visual conventions in Florentine art.