Virgin and Child (c. 1460): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child (c. 1460) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Neri di Bicci (Italian, 1419–1491).

The work and its context

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

Neri de Bicci was a prolific painter of mainly religious themes, active principally in Florence as a panel painter. His grandfather Lorenzo di Bicci was also a painter in Florence, a pupil of Spinello Aretino. His journals from the years 1453-75, including the rates of remuneration for his work, are still preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child
• Date: c. 1460
• Creator attribution: Neri di Bicci (Italian, 1419–1491)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Painting
• Technique: tempera on wood panel
• Dimensions: Framed: 59.1 x 35.6 x 3.8 cm (23 1/4 x 14 x 1 1/2 in.); Unframed: 54 x 30.8 cm (21 1/4 x 12 1/8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1946.242

A detail from the museum

When cleaned in 1947, a modern hedge with orange trees was removed from the background of this painting.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, H. S. (1947). Recent Gifts to the Museum. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 34(1).
• Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places, by Bernard Berenson ... [2.], [2.]. [Lieu de publication non identifié]: Phaidon Press, 1963.
• Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .

View the collection record

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