Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Pope-Hennessy, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1964, I, pp. 132-3, fig. 127
Of the version in London, Pope-Hennessy writes, "The composition seems to have enjoyed unusual popularity in the fifteenth century and is recorded in versions in terracotta..., in cartapesta..., and in stucco." He continues, "...the present composition...in all probability derives from a lost marble relief by this artist (Antonio Rossellino)." Rossellino (1427-79) was the most famous carver of marble and inventor of Madonna reliefs like this in the middle of the Quattrocento in Florence.
J. Pope-Hennessy, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1964, I, pp. 132-3, fig. 127
Of the version in London, Pope-Hennessy writes, "The composition seems to have enjoyed unusual popularity in the fifteenth century and is recorded in versions in terracotta..., in cartapesta..., and in stucco." He continues, "...the present composition...in all probability derives from a lost marble relief by this artist (Antonio Rossellino)." Rossellino (1427-79) was the most famous carver of marble and inventor of Madonna reliefs like this in the middle of the Quattrocento in Florence.