  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  This Image of the standing Virgin and Child reveals a profound change in the Image of the Virgin that occurred by the early fourteenth century. Rather than confronting the viewer frontally in the Romanesque manner, here the mother and her child engage in an intimate, human relationship. The child energetically grasps the Virgin's mantle in his right hand as he leans back to peer into her face. Giovanni di Balduccio was born in Pisa and worked in Tuscany during his early years, moving north to Lombardy in the mid-1330s.
  
  
  Title
  Madonna and Child
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. between 1332 and 1334
  
  Artist
  Giovanni Balduccio
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1300-1360
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  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
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Marble
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall (sculpture): 32 &Atilde;&#151; 11 3/4 &Atilde;&#151; 8 1/4 inches (81.3 &Atilde;&#151; 29.8 &Atilde;&#151; 21 cm)
  Overall (pedestal): 46 1/2 &Atilde;&#151; 29 &Atilde;&#151; 25 inches (118.1 &Atilde;&#151; 73.7 &Atilde;&#151; 63.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
  
  
  
  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&acirc;&#128;&#153;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&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  37.140
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
