FLORENTINE SCHOOL circa 1280, entourage of the Master of VARLUNGO Face of the Virgin Prepared panel, slightly convex 26 x 19.5 cm (Old restorations and missing pieces) We compare this panel with the Altarpiece attributed to the Master of Varlungo by Garrison and de Corso du Buono at Christie's London sale, December 13, 1996, no. 101 (Madonna and Child on a throne with Saint Dominic (105 x 63.5 cm). The Master of Varlungo is an epigone of Cimabue, active in Florence between 1285 and 1310 (see E. B. Garrison, Italian romanesque panel painting, Florence, 1949, no. 3 reproduced on p. 40 and for a good reproduction, Fototeca Zeri no. 1464).