  About the Artwork
  
  
  Although Luca della Robbia also worked in marble, bronze, and wood, he is best known for introducing enameled terracotta sculpture around 1440 and for founding a family dynasty of sculptors working in this medium. Typical of his terracotta sculpture, this relief is one of four versions of the so-called Genoa Madonna (one of which was originally in Genoa), each with slight differences in their modeling and expression.
  
  
  Title
  Madonna and Child
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1445 and 1450
  
  Artist
  Luca della Robbia
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1399-1482
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  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
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Enameled terracotta
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 19 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (49.5 × 36.8 cm)
  Framed: 40 × 29 1/2 inches (101.6 × 74.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  City of Detroit Purchase
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  29.355
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
