Christ Child
Michele (di Luca) Marini (Italian)
c. 1490–1500
Medium
marble
Dimensions
87.6 × 35.6 × 30.5 cm
Classification
Sculpture
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
In memory of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., gift of Mr. and Mrs. Germain Seligman, New York
Accession Number
1975.47
Tags
male
About this artwork
This sculpture is an enlarged version of Desiderio da Settignano's figure of about 1460 at the top of his tabernacle in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence. There are many replicas of Desiderio's work. This example is an especially fine one, undoubtedly intended for the interior of a church.