The Virgin and Child in Glory with Cherubim, Seraphim, Four Angels, Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

In 1442 Cistercian monks from the abbey of Settimo, outside Florence, moved into a church in the city dedicated to Mary Magdalene, known afterwards as Cestello. This large panel was painted for its high altar, and the two saints in it belong to that church. Mary Magdalene was its patron, and Bernard of Clairvaux, writing in an open book, was the great saint of the Cistercian order. Above them the Virgin and Child float in a glory of red seraphim and blue cherubim, with four angels around them.

Giorgio Vasari, the biographer of the Florentine artists, saw it in the church and gave it to Cosimo Rosselli, whose own altarpiece still hangs there. That name followed the picture for centuries. In 1628 the church passed to Carmelite nuns, and it is now Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. The panel stayed in the building until August 1812, when it was removed and taken to the Louvre, and the museum's inventory recorded it as a work by Cosimo Rosselli. The Louvre now gives it to Francesco Botticini.