Maestà Of Santa Maria Dei Servi
The ''Maestà of Santa Maria dei Servi'' is a tempera and gold on panel painting by Cimabue or his workshop, dating to c.1280-1285, between his Maestà (Cimabue), Louvre Maestà (c.1280) on the one hand and the Assisi frescoes (1288–1292) and the Santa Trinita Maestà (c.1290-1300) on the other. It is named after the church of Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi, Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna, where it hangs. It was later repainted and has a fake inscription as well as several candle burns. Enrico Podio restored it in 1936-1937 and Ottorino Nonfarmale in 1977. As with many other paintings it reproduces Islamic textiles, in particular the thin strip of fabric covering the upper edge of the throne, with a pseudo-Arabic inscription whose "characters" are very similar to those on a Syrian ceramic of the same date now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.Contadini, Anna (1999) ''Artistic Contacts: Present Scholarship and Future Tasks'', Contadini, A. and Burnett, C., Islam and the Ital ...
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