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Madonna and Child
workshop of Antonio Rossellino (Italian, 1427–1479)
c. 1470
- Medium
- painted stucco with traces of gilding
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 83.5 x 65.1 cm (32 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, Florence
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Samuel L. Mather
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This relief is one of several such painted stucco replicas cast after the marble original of about 1460–65 now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. While this example has suffered old and obvious losses, it still conveys the overall composition and some of the subtlety of modeling of the marble. In addition, it retains sufficient portions of its fifteenth-century paint and gilding to suggest a colorfulness and richly decorated surface which the marble was never intended to have, and which connects this work with panel paintings of the time. The gilded wooden frame, not made for this relief, is Venetian and dates to about 1400–1450.
