Madonna and Child

ca. 1435

Attributed to Lorenzo Ghiberti Italian, 1378-1455

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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 ca. 1435

Artist Attributed to Lorenzo Ghiberti

Life Dates 1378-1455

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 Gilded terracotta with polychrome decoration

Dimensions Overall: 27 1/2 × 17 inches (69.9 × 43.2 cm) Framed: 46 × 23 1/2 × 9 inches (116.8 × 59.7 × 22.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford

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. F76.91

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(Luigi Grassi, Florence, Italy);
1925, purchaed by Eleanor Clay Ford;
1976-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1938, no. 25 (ill.).

Ragghianti, C. "La Mostra di scultura italiana antica a Detroit." Critica d'Arte 3 (August-December 1938): p. 174.

Middledorf, U. "Die Ausstellung italienischer Renaissanceskulptur in Detroit." Pantheon 22 (1938): p. 337. Reprint, Middledorf 1979-1981, 1, pp. 335-339.

Valentiner, W.R. "Donatello and Ghiberti." Art Quarterly 3 (1940): pp. 182-214; pp. 198- 214 (fig. 11); p. 198 (ill.).

Pope-Hennessy, J. and R. Lightbrown. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 3 vols. London, 1968, pp. 61, 63.

Pope-Hennessy, John. The Study and Criticism of Italian Sculpture. New York, 1980, pp. 65-67.

Pope-Hennessy, J. An Introduction to Italian Sculpture, 3 vols., 3rd ed. New York, 1985, vol. 1, p. 215.

Bellosi, L. "Donatello's Early Works in Terracotta." In Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello. Detroit, 1985, p. 98.

Darr, A.P. Detroit, 1985, pp. 108-110 (fig. 14).

Itaian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello. Exh. cat., DIA and Kimbell Art Museum. Detroit and Fort Worth, 1985, pp. 108-110.

Bellosi, L. "I problemi dell'attivita giovanile." In Donatello e I Suoi. Florence, 1986, p. 49.

Avery, C. "Donatello Celebrations: A major exhibition at Detroit, Fort Worth and Florence." Apollo 123, no. 287 (January 1986): p. 15.

Pope-Hennessy, J. La Scultura Italiana Del Rinacimento. Turin, 1986, pp. 10, 69.

Passavant, G. Zu einigen toskanischen Terrakotta-Madonnen der Fruhrenaissance, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 31 (1987): pp. 205-206, nos. 10, 12 (fig. 9).

Bellosi, L. "Donatello e il recupero della scultura in terracotta." In Donatello-Studien. Munich, 1989, pp. 135-136, 143 (figs. 14, 16, 18).

Bellosi, L. La rinascita della scultura in terracotta nel Quattrocento, in Niccolo dell'Arca Seminario di Studi, Atti del Convegno [Proceedings]. May 26-27, 1987, eds. G. Agostino & L. Ciammitti. Bologna, 1989, p. 4 (fig. 3).

Darr, A.P. "The Donatello exhibition at Detroit and Florence: Results, Perspectives, New Directions." In Donatello Studien. Munich, 1989, pp. 12, 22, nos. 17-18.

Bellosi, L. and G. Gentilini. "Una Nuova Madonna in Terracotta del Giovane Donatello." Pantheon 56 (1996): pp. 20, 26, no. 12.

Bellosi, L. and G. Gentilini. Una Nuova Madonna in Terracotta del Giovane Donatello. Exh. cat., Antichi Maestri Pittori Gallery. Turin, 1998, p. 16 (fig. 13).

Jolly, A. Madonnas by Donatello and his Circle. Frankfurt am Main and New York, 1998, p. 91 (fig. 6).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, vol. 1, cat. 48.

Caglioti, Francesco, Laura Cavazzini, Aldo Galli, and Neville Rowley. “Reconsidering the Young Donatello.” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 57 (2015): pp. 23, 29 (fig. 21), 42.

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attributed to Lorenzo Ghiberti, Madonna and Child, ca. 1435, gilded terracotta with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford, F76.91.