About the Artwork
Madonna and Child with Angels
between 1335 and 1340
Agostino di Giovanni
1285-1348
Italian
Unknown
Marble
Overall: 30 × 37 3/16 × 2 1/2 inches (76.2 × 94.4 × 6.4 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
25.151
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
before 1868, John Temple Leader (Castello di Vincigliata, Vincigliata, Italy)
(Arturo Grassi, Florence, Italy)
1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Scott, L. The Castle of Vincigliata. Florence, 1897, pp. 104-105.
Valentiner, W.R. "Two Italian Renaissance Statues," Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 3 (1925): pp. 26-28 (ill.).
Exhibition of Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1938, no. 7 (ill.) [unpaginated].
Ragghianti, C. "La Mostra di Scultura Italiana Antica a Detroit," Critica d'Arte 3 (August-December 1938): p. 170.
Masterpieces of Art Art in Memory of W.R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, April 6- May 17, 1959, p. 269 (ill.).
Scultura Dipinta: Maestri di Legname e Pittori a Siena, 1250-1450. Exh. cat., Pinacoteca Nazionale. Siena, July 16-December 31, 1987, pp. 52-55.
Gillerman, D., ed. Gothic Sculpture in America. Vol. I, The New England Museums. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989, cat. no. 207, p. 268.
Gentilini, G. and C. Sisi. La Scultura, Bozzetti in Terracotta, Piccoli Marmi e Altre Sculture dal XIV al XX Secolo. Siena, 1989, pp. 12-16.
Baldry, F. John Temple Leader e Il Castello di Vincigliata: Un Episodio di Restauro e di Collezionismo nella Firenze dell'Ottocento. Florence, 1997, pp. 148, 194, (fig. 54).
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 32.
Bartalini, Roberto. Scultura Gotica in Toscana: Maestri, Monumenti, Cantieri del Due e Trecento, Bance Monte dei Paschi di Siena Spa. Milan, 2006, p. 374.
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workshop of Agostino di Giovanni, Madonna and Child with Angels, between 1335 and 1340, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.151.
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