The Virgin Mary sits upon a throne, caressing the face of her infant son, who returns her adoring gaze as he grasps her veil. This sweet interaction originally formed the central scene of an altarpiece with adjacent panels showing pairs of standing saints. The Virgin’s monumentality and the Christ Child’s nudity reveal Giovanni dal Ponte’s efforts, in line with fellow artists in Florence, to portray volume and anatomy convincingly. Two angels in shimmering shot-silk garments sing and play music. The one at lower right wears a distinctive knotted hairstyle, curls fluttering in an otherworldly wind.