Madonna and Child (by 1461): Art, History and Details

Madonna and Child (by 1461) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Mino da Fiesole (Italian, c. 1430–1484).

The work and its context

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

This relief is one of four produced for the ciborium (canopy) erected by Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville over the high altar of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The ciborium was taken apart in 1747 and the other three panels--Christ Blessing, The Annunciation, and Saints Peter and Paul--were set into the walls of the sacristy.

Object facts

• Title: Madonna and Child
• Date: by 1461
• Creator attribution: Mino da Fiesole (Italian, c. 1430–1484)
• Culture: Italy, Rome
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: marble with traces of gilding
• Dimensions: Overall: 93.7 x 80 x 12.7 cm (36 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 5 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1928.747

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Leonard C. Hanna

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.