Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Donor, 1507. This painting depicts the Madonna and Child on a patterned marble throne between Saints John the Baptist at the left and Jerome at the right. The donors (the individuals who commissioned the work) are shown bust-length and in prayer on a slightly lower plane that keeps them at a distance from the holy figures and closer to the secular world. Their specific identifies are now unknown but they were presumably husband and wife, since their respective families¡¦ coats of arms are shown ¡§impaled,¡¨ or combined, on a single shield between them. The man¡¦s coat of arms belong the Pisani family and the woman¡¦s to the Besagio. Both families were influential in 16th-century Venetian society, and the marriage between them documented by Carpaccio¡¦s painting probably occurred in 1507, the date inscribed in Roman numerals on the step below the Madonna¡¦s throne.