Virgin and Child with a Goldfinch (c. 1490): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child with a Goldfinch (c. 1490) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Neroccio de' Landi (Italian, 1447–1500).

The work and its context

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

Neroccio di Bartolomeo de’ Landi was both a painter and sculptor. He was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468. Neroccio is considered by many to be a Madonna painter par excellence. His aristocratic images were much appreciated in his time, and he is perhaps among Siena’s last great painters of the 1500s.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child with a Goldfinch
• Date: c. 1490
• Creator attribution: Neroccio de' Landi (Italian, 1447–1500)
• Culture: Italy, Siena
• Type: Painting
• Technique: tempera on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 65 x 45 x 7.5 cm (25 9/16 x 17 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 38.8 x 30.5 cm (15 1/4 x 12 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1980.101

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.
• Fahy, Everett. Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe: L'Archivio storico fotografico di Stefano Bardini. Firenze: A. Bruschi, 2000.

View the collection record

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