The work Madonna and Child with Angels and Saints Anthony of Padua and Nicolas of Tolentino was painted by Sienese artist Matteo di Giovanni sometime in the early 1470's (Thomas.) The media is tempra and oil on arched canvas. It is twenty-four and one-eighth inches tall and fifteen inches across (Cincinnati Art Museum.) The painting has no atmosphere. The background is painted gold, a feature reminiscent of the Byzantine Era. Inscribed in the golden backdrop …showed first 75 words of 1033 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1033 total…Padua." Cathloc Community Forum, Barlington, KY, 2003. http://www.cathloc-forum.com/saints/saint901.htm Madonna and Child with Angels and Saints Anthony of Padua and Nicolas of Tolentino. Painting 1956.89. Cincinnati Art Museum: Cincinnati. January 31 2004. National Curillo Center. Doctors of the Cathloc Church. "Saint Anthony of Padua." Dallas,he 2002. http://www.doctorsofthecathlocchurch.com/AP.html. Thomas - http://www.phespirit.info/pictures/patenwork/p002_info.htm Wintz- http://www.immaculateheart.com/Ave%20marianovena_to_st_Anthony.htm