| Artist | Cimabue |
|---|---|
| Year | c. 1280 |
| Type | Tempera on panel |
| Dimensions | 424 cm × 276 cm (167 in × 109 in) |
| Location | Louvre, Paris |
The Maestà is a painting by the Italian artist Cimabue, painted around 1280 and housed in Musée du Louvre of Paris, France.
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It was acquired by the Louvre in 1813, as part of the Napoleonic spoiling of artworks in Italy, together with Giotto's Stigmata of St. Francis, also from San Francesco.
The work is considered to be from around 1280, thus preceding the Santa Trinita Maestà: the is painted using without a pseudo-perspective, and the angels who crowd around the Virgin are not spatially placed, but simply painted one above the other. The throne is similar to the Maestà painted by Cimabue in the Basilica of San Francesco di Assisi (1288–1292).
This work established a new canon for the Madonna with Child theme, which was subsequently used by other painters, such as Duccio di Buoninsegna in his Rucellai Maestà.