The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Madonna and Child
c. 1470
workshop of Antonio Rossellino
(Italian, 1427–1479 )
Overall: 83.5 x 65.1 cm (32 7/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Bequest of Samuel L. Mather 1970.44
Location: not on view
Description
This relief is one of several such painted stucco replicas cast after the marble original of about 1460–65 now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. While this example has suffered old and obvious losses, it still conveys the overall composition and some of the subtlety of modeling of the marble. In addition, it retains sufficient portions of its fifteenth-century paint and gilding to suggest a colorfulness and richly decorated surface which the marble was never intended to have, and which connects this work with panel paintings of the time. The gilded wooden frame, not made for this relief, is Venetian and dates to about 1400–1450.- Samuel Mather (Cleveland, Ohio), upon his death, held in trust by the estateEstate of Samuel Mather, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970.1970-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).
- {{cite web|title=Madonna and Child|url=false|author=Antonio Rossellino|year=c. 1470|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1970.44