Madonna and Child
probably second half 15th century
Medium
Bronze, brown patina, slightly verdigris, traces of gilding
Dimensions
2 5/8 × 2 7/8 in. (6.7 × 7.3 cm)
Classification
Medals and Plaquettes
Culture
Italian, Padua
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1909
Accession Number
09.161.2
Tags
About the Artist
Donatello · 1380–1466
Important and very influential Florentine sculptor in the media of marble, bronze, and wood. Although he himself was not not a cultured intellectual (as was typical for artists of his generation and earlier), he associated with early Renaissance humanists in Florence, Rome, and Padua. In his art, he made new references to Antique forms, and to this added new expressive and technical virtuousity to...