Sculpture
Madonna and Child
Permanent ExhibitionSculptureReligious Art
Details
- Author / creator
- Mino da Fiesole (Italian, c. 1430–1484)
- Object type
- Sculpture
- Date or period
- by 1461
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 93.7 × 80 × 12.7 cm
- Primary material
- Marble
- Place of origin
- Italy
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1928
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
This relief is one of four produced for the ciborium (canopy) erected by Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville over the high altar of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The ciborium was taken apart in 1747 and the other three panels--Christ Blessing, The Annunciation, and Saints Peter and Paul--were set into the walls of the sacristy.
Materials and technique
Marble with traces of gilding
