  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Madonna and Child and the Young St. John
  
  
  Artwork Date
  mid or late 16th century
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Possibly Antonio Calcagni  (Artist)
  Italian, 1536 - 1593
  School of Jacopo Sansovino  (Artist)
  Italian, 1486-1570
  
  
  
  Medium
  Terracotta with polychromy and gilding
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 15 15/16 &Atilde;&#151; 8 7/8 &Atilde;&#151; 9 1/2 inches (40.5 &Atilde;&#151; 22.5 &Atilde;&#151; 24.1 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Rene Gimpel
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  25.25
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
