Painting and Sculpture

Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna

Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna, originally called Cimabue's [Celebrated] Madonna [is] Carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence, is an oil painting by English artist Frederic Leighton. Measuring more than two metres tall and more than five metres wide, the canvas was painted by Leighton from 1853 to 1855 in Rome as his first major work. Since 1988 the work has been displayed in the National Gallery, London, on long-term loan from the Royal Collection, where it was long hung prominently, high above the main vestibule, directly beyond the entrance to the gallery, but more recently it has been in Room 45. In 2018 it was displayed at the top of the Sainsbury Wing staircase. In 2025 the work is no longer on display. Leighton House has an oil sketch for the painting, and several preparatory drawings.

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See also

• ▸Newspaper Readers in Naples
• ▸Beta Aquilae
• ▸Eskenazi Museum of Art

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