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Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child

Artist/Maker (Italian, 1435–1488)
Date1465–70
MediumPlaster with traces of polychromy
DimensionsOverall: 33 1/4 × 23 13/16 × 3 15/16 in. (84.4 × 60.5 × 10 cm)
Frame: 34 5/8 × 25 1/16 × 5 1/2 in. (87.9 × 63.7 × 14 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1944.167
Status
On view
More Information
The Oberlin relief is one of six extant, nearly identical sculptures from Renaissance Florence. The composition for all six is believed to have been originally designed by Andrea del Verrocchio, but this attribution can be neither confirmed or disproved at the present time. This highly popular composition was imitated in Florence repeatedly from around 1470 onward, and the six surviving versions of this relief were clearly not produced by the same shop. Two of the reliefs, in glazed terracotta, have been attributed to Benedetto Buglione, and dated to around 1470-80. The Oberlin relief was produced in a mold taken from another sculpture, probably made in terracotta and now lost.
Exhibition History
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  • Parrish-Watson Galleries, New York ( 1935-11 - 1935-11 )
Masterpieces of Art
  • New York World's Fair ( 1939-05 - 1939-10 )
Recent Acquisitions 1944-45
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH ( 1946-06 - 1946-06 )
The Story of Christ in Art: Paintings, Graphic Works, Textiles and Sculpture from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH ( 1957-08 - 1957-09 )
Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
  • A. S. Drey Gallery, New York (March 2, 1935 - March 20, 1935 )
Italian Sculpture 1250-1500
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (January 7, 1938 - February 20, 1938 )
Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - June 30, 2013 )
Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio
  • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (June 29, 2018 - October 7, 2018 )
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
  • Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (February 21, 2019 - July 7, 2019 )
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (September 15, 2019 - January 12, 2020 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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