Virgin and Child with Saints

Berlinghiero’s ‘Virgin and Child with Saints’ is a tempera and gold painting on wood from the c. 1230s. It depicts the Hodegetria, an iconographic type where the Virgin Mary points to Christ as the source of salvation.

The painting comes from Italy and is part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s collection. Its dimensions are not specified in the museum’s records.

Berlinghiero is a name derived from the inscription ‘Berlingerius me pinxit’ found on a crucifix. He was active in the early thirteenth century and is associated with the Italo-Byzantine style.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.237.a