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Madonna and Child and the Young St. John
mid or late 16th century
Antonio Calcagni (Artist) Italian, 1536 - 1593 Jacopo Sansovino (Artist) Italian, 1486-1570
Terracotta with polychromy and gilding
Overall: 15 15/16 × 8 7/8 × 9 1/2 inches (40.5 × 22.5 × 24.1 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Rene Gimpel
25.25
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Provenance
(Rene Gimpel [1881-1945], Paris, France)
1925-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Valentiner, W.R. "Two Italian Renaissance statues," Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 8 (1925): pp. 82-83 (ill.).
Darr, A. P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 123.
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school of Jacopo Sansovino; possibly Antonio Calcagni, Madonna and Child and the Young St. John, mid or late 16th century, terracotta with polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Rene Gimpel, 25.25.
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