Madonna and Child with Six Angels

ca. 1860

Luca della Robbia Italian, 1399-1482

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Title Madonna and Child with Six Angels

Artwork Date ca. 1860

Artist Luca della Robbia

Life Dates 1399-1482

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. 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 Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Terracotta

Dimensions Overall: 13 7/16 × 7/8 inches, 4.9 pounds (34.1 × 2.3 cm, 2.2 kg)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of Eleanor Clay Ford

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. 49.533

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Sir. J.C. Robinson [1824-1913] (London, England)

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914] (Paris, France)

Edsel B. Ford [1893-1943] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1943-1949, Eleanor Clay Ford [1896-1976] (Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, USA) 1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bode, W. "Luca della Robbia," Jahrbuch der Koniglich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, vol. VI (1885): pp. 184-185.

Marquand, A. "The Madonnas of Luca della Robbia," American Journal of Archeology, vol. IX (1894): p. 6.

Reymond, M. Les Della Robbia. Florence, 1897, p. 127.

Bode, W. Denkmaler der Renaissanceskulptur Toscanas. 1905, pp. 75-76.

Migeon, G. Paris, 1908.

Venturi, A. Storia dell'Arte italiana, VI, La Scultura del Quattrocento. Milan, 1908, p. 555.

Vitry, P. Les Arts (December 1909).

Marquand, A. Luca della Robbia. Princeton, 1914, p. 229.

Bode, W. Florentine Bildhauer. Berlin, 1921, p. 170.

Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures. January 7-February 20, 1938, no. 35 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "The Virgin and Child with Six Angels by Luca della Robbia," Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 4 (1949-50): pp. 78-80.

Pallas, Geneva, vol. 14, no. 10 (May 30, 1950): p. 110.

DIA. "A Superb Luca della Robbia," Pictures on Exhibit, vol. 12, no. 8 (May 1950): pp. 10-11 (ill.).

Gaborit, J.R. "Ghiberti et Luca della Robbia, a propos de deux reliefs conserves au Louvre," Lorenzo Ghiberti nel suo Tempo (1978/80): pp. 187-194.

Pope-Hennessy, John. Luca della Robbia. Ithaca, 1980, p. 257.

Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello. Exh. cat., DIA, Kimbell Art Museum. Detroit, Fort Worth, October 23, 1985-April 27, 1986, pp. 151-152.

Darr, A.P. and G. Bonsanti. Donatello e i Suoi. Florence, Forte di Belvedere, June 15 - September 7, 1986, no. 77 (ill.).

Kokole, S. Auf Den Spuren Des Fruhen Florentiner Quattrocento in Dalmatien: Das Toskanische Formengut Bei Giorgio Da Sebenico Bis 1450, Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte 42 (1989): pp. 160, 165, 300, (fig. 26).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tokyo: Bunkamura Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 3 (ill.).

Gentillini, G. I Della Robbia: La scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento, 2 vols. Florence, 1992, pp. 22, 43.

Jolly, A. Madonnas by Donatello and his circle. Frankfurt am Main and New York, 1998, pp. 172-174, 325, (fig. 111).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, 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., II, cat. 265.

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