Virgin and Child
mid-15th century
Medium
Stucco and colored glass (in halo)
Dimensions
Overall (wt. confirmed): H. 45 x W. 28 in., 113lb. (114.3 x 71.1 cm, 51.2565kg)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
Italian, probably Verona
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922
Accession Number
22.16.3
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...