Virgin and Child
early 1530s
Jacopo Sansovino
Jacopo Sansovino (Italian, 1486–1570)
European Painting and Sculpture
Virgin and Child, early 1530s. Jacopo Sansovino (Italian, 1486–1570). Bronze; overall: 47.6 x 17.2 x 11.5 cm (18 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1951.316 Mary’s classicizing head and the relatively rough finish are characteristic of northern Italian Renaissance sculpture. Artists rarely signed bronzes in this period, so Sansovino’s name on the base indicates this work’s importance, although the patron has yet to be identified. This sculpture was meant to be seen only from the front, typical of Renaissance sculpture in the early 1500s.
- Maker/Artist
- Sansovino, Jacopo
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 47.6 x 17.2 x 11.5 cm (18 3/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscribed across the front of the base: IACOBVS SANSOV.
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1951.316
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Art: The International Language, The Italian Heritage; an exhibition of works of art lent from American collections for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage, Antiquity in the Renaissance, In the Light of Apollo - Italian Renaissance and Greece, National Gallery/Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens (12/22/2003 - 3/31/2004): "In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece" cat. no.XVII.13, p. 550 and p. 565.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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