Madonna and Child

between 1490 and 1500

Andrea della Robbia Italian, 1435-1525

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Madonna and Child

Artwork Date between 1490 and 1500

Artist Andrea della Robbia

Life Dates 1435-1525

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Glazed terracotta

Dimensions Unframed: 34 × 26 inches (86.4 × 66 cm) Framed: 47 1/4 × 29 1/2 inches (120 × 74.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 45.514

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Provenance

Lazzeri Collection (Villa di San Donato, Casellina, S. Michele a Torri, near Scandicci, Italy);
Luigi Grassi (Florence, Italy);
Dr. Arturo Grassi (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA).
Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs;
1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Cavallucci, J. and F. Molinier. Les della Robbia. Paris, 1884, p. 230; Bollettino d'Arte 8, 1928-1929, pp. 572-573.

Valentiner, W.R. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1938, cat. no. 61 (ill.) [catalogue also titled Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters and Italian Sculpture: 1250-1500].

Ragghianti, C. "La mostra di scultura italiana antica a Detroit." La Critica d'Arte 3 (August-December 1938): p. 175.

Richardson, E.P. "The Virgin and Child by Andrea della Robbia." Bulletin of the DIA 25, no. 3 (1946): pp. 50-51 (cover ill.).

Michigan Catholic, January 10, 1946.

Darr, A.P. "A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit." Apollo 124 (December 1986): p. 480 (fig. 8).

Gentilini, G. I Della Robbia. La scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento, 2 vols. Florence, 1992, pp. 173, 268, no. 31.

Gentilini, G. "Angelo Poliziano, Lorenzo il Magnifico e la scultura invetriata." Umanesimo e Rimascimento a Montepulciano, ed. A. Silillo. Montepulciano, 1994.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 59.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Andrea della Robbia, Madonna and Child, between 1490 and 1500, glazed terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs, 45.514.