Madonna and Child (c. 1475): Art, History and Details

Madonna and Child (c. 1475) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Antonio Rossellino (Italian, 1427–1479 ); Workshop.

The work and its context

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

Antonio Rossellino was the youngest and most notable member of a family of sculptors and architects prominent in Florence during the 1440s and 1450s. He trained in the family studio under his oldest brother, Bernardo, and developed a lively sculptural style noted primarily for his sensitively rendered marble figures of youths, as well as reliefs of the Madonna and Child. This sculpture of the standing Madonna and Child possibly represents a commission for one of Florence's many chapels, and was probably completed by the artist's workshop under his direction. Antonio died of the plague around 1479.

Object facts

• Title: Madonna and Child
• Date: c. 1475
• Creator attribution: Antonio Rossellino (Italian, 1427–1479 ); Workshop
• Culture: Italy, Florence
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: polychromed terracotta
• Dimensions: Overall: 121.9 cm (48 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1942.780

Collection credit

Bequest of John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
• Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. "Department of Decorative Arts." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 137-151.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

View the collection record

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