An underground virtuoso, always being discovered in bits and pieces, the portraitist solidifies his place in the canon with a solo show at the Frick its first ever for a Black artist.
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Gentile da Fabrianos gold-leaf and tempera on panel composition, Madonna and Child, with Saints Lawrence and Julian (ca. 142325), currently on view at the Frick Madison, is still housed in its original frame: an appropriately dramatic arrangement of spiraled columns flows into an ogival arch crowned with golden leaves.