Paolo Veneziano's "Coronation of the Virgin"

Explore Paolo Veneziano’s “Coronation of the Virgin” with Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon. This magnificent panel—the most important work by the 14th-century Venetian outside Europe—presents the Virgin and Christ in sumptuous garments and a choir of angels playing portable organs, lutes, trumpets, tambourines, and other instruments.