Coronation of the Virgin (Gentile da Fabriano)

Coronation of the Virgin is a tempera painting by the Italian late Gothic artist Gentile da Fabriano, executed c. 1420, now in the Getty Museum.

It originated as the front of the a processional banner – the reverse showed Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata and is now in Parma.

The painting was commissioned from Gentile da Fabriano, about 1420, as a processional standard banner in holding parades that honored the Virgin Mary for a confraternity based at the church of San Francesco Monastery in Fabriano, the painter's birthplace, he had returned there from Brescia for a few months in spring 1420 before moving on to Florence.

[1] Ambrogio de' Bizochis was probably the intermediary between the painter and the confraternity - he was cousin to Egidio, brother of Gentile's wife.

At halo's Christ, where a Christogram inscribed: YHS / XPS / FIL[IUS]the scrolls inscribed in Latin: Timete dominum et date illi hono[rem] / Dignus est agnus qui o[ccisus est] while the hem of Virgin's robe inscribed: Ave Maria g[ratia] plen[a] dominus tecum be[nedicta]Extensive tooling, such as pastiglia and rich pigments applied in a glossy coating above its gold leaf in making a luxurious result on its surface like a tapestry, are Gentile's artwork technique.