id:			101492
accession number:	1920.273
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.273
updated:		2023-08-23 18:40:07.113000

Virgin and Child, c. 1475–1485. Workshop of Pietro Lombardo (Italian, c. 1435–1515). Marble; overall: 54.6 x 37.2 x 9.5 cm (21 1/2 x 14 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund 1920.273

title:				Virgin and Child
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creation date:			c. 1475–1485
creation date earliest:		1470
creation date latest:		1490
current location:		117A Italian Renaissance
creditline:			General Income Fund
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culture:	Italy, Venice, 15th century
technique:	marble
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Pietro Lombardo (Italian, c. 1435–1515)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 54.6 x 37.2 x 9.5 cm (21 1/2 x 14 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture
	opening date:   1975-09-24T04:00:00
	<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Wildenstein & Co. (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1920.
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wall description:
In the later 1400s, artists increasingly infused sacred subject matter with a classical vocabulary. The shallow relief and simplified forms ultimately stemmed from ancient sculpture, bringing gravity as well as novelty to a conventional theme. Yet naturalistic elements such as the baby’s bulging navel, chubby wrists, and shirt pulled up to reveal his genitals all humanize Christ, a critical principle of Christian dogma.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 7, no. 8 (1920): 123-26.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 123
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136412

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 85
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n109

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 85
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n109

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 98
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n118

	Schulz, Anne Markham. <em>The History of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture, Ca. 1400-1530</em>. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2017.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 191
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IMAGES

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