The Virgin and Child

The collection of Early Italian paintings in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza has two works by Bernardo Daddi: the present Virgin and Child and a Crucifixion. From their dimensions it can be deduced that both would have been painted for the purposes of private devotion. Following Giotto’s death, Daddi became the leading Florentine painter and ran an active workshop from where he developed a range of a…