Maestà

Also known as Maesta, majesty

thumb|300px|Cimabue's Maestà , Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. thumb|right|300px|The central panel of Duccio's Maestà with Twenty Angels and Nineteen Saints (1308–1311), Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, [[Siena.]] Maestà , the Italian word for 'majesty', designates a classification of images of the enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus, the designation generally implying accompaniment by angels, saints, or both. The Maestà is an extension of the "Seat of Wisdom" theme of the seated "Mary Theotokos", "Mary Mother of God", which is a counterpart to the earlier icon of Christ in Majesty, the enthr