Virgin and Child, with Saints Anthony Abbott, Mark, Severino, and Sebastian (c. 1490–96): Art, History and Details

Virgin and Child, with Saints Anthony Abbott, Mark, Severino, and Sebastian (c. 1490–96) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Lorenzo da Sanseverino (Italian, 1468–1500).

The work and its context

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

The finest textiles and dress associated with the aristocracy were often represented in religious paintings. Here, the Virgin is clothed in a fashionably tailored dress with close-fitted sleeves made of luxurious velvet. Gold thread forms the pomegranate pattern on the deep crimson velvet ground. Saint Sebastian (on the right) wears an equally opulent velvet doublet under his sleeveless tunic.

Object facts

• Title: Virgin and Child, with Saints Anthony Abbott, Mark, Severino, and Sebastian
• Date: c. 1490–96
• Creator attribution: Lorenzo da Sanseverino (Italian, 1468–1500)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Painting
• Technique: tempera on gold wood panel
• Dimensions: Framed: 144 x 84.5 x 5 cm (56 11/16 x 33 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 128.9 x 76 cm (50 3/4 x 29 15/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Medieval Art
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1916.800

Collection credit

Holden Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
• G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.

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.