About the Artwork
Madonna and Child
ca. 1435
Lorenzo Ghiberti
1378-1455
Italian
Unknown
Gilded terracotta with polychrome decoration
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)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford
F76.91
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
(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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Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. 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, p. 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, I, 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).
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.
Itaian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Kimbell Art Museum. Detroit and Fort Worth, 1985, pp. 108-110.
Passavant, G. Zu einigen toskanischen Terrakotta-Madonnen der Fruhrenaissance, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 31 (1987): pp. 205-206, no. 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. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 48.
Caglioti, Francesco, Laura Cavazzini, Aldo Galli, and Neville Rowley. “Reconsidering the Young Donatello,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 57 (2015): pp. 23, 29 (ill. 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.
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