Christ Child (c. 1490–1500): Art, History and Details

Christ Child (c. 1490–1500) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Michele (di Luca) Marini (Italian).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This sculpture is an enlarged version of Desiderio da Settignano's figure of about 1460 at the top of his tabernacle in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence. There are many replicas of Desiderio's work. This example is an especially fine one, undoubtedly intended for the interior of a church.

Object facts

• Title: Christ Child
• Date: c. 1490–1500
• Creator attribution: Michele (di Luca) Marini (Italian)
• Culture: Italy, Florence
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: marble
• Dimensions: Overall: 87.6 x 35.6 x 30.5 cm (34 1/2 x 14 x 12 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1975.47

Collection credit

In memory of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., gift of Mr. and Mrs. Germain Seligman, New York

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.

View the collection record

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