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Virgin and Child
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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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922

Classification

Sculpture

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

Italian, probably Verona

Rights

Public Domain

About Donatello

1380–1466Republic of Florence

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 sculpture of the period. Italian sculptor. Comment on works: sculptor