A POLYCHROME STUCCO RELIEF OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD

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ATTRIBUTED TO MICHELE DA FIRENZE (1385-1455), FLORENCE, 15TH CENTURY
A POLYCHROME STUCCO RELIEF OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD
stucco
26 (66 cm.) in. high, 20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 8 July 2011, lot 39

Literature

A. Galli, B. Rosa and M. Scansani, Tra arte e industria, La serialità della scultura nel Rinascimento, Rome, 2026, p. 42, fig, 3.

RELATED LITERATURE
J. Pope-Hennessy, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1964, pp. 65-69.
A. Galli, 'Michele da Firenze: i problemi dell'attività giovanile', Prospettiva 68 (1992), pp. 13-29.
A. Galli, Crocevia estense: contributi per la storia della scultura a Ferrara nel XV secolo, Ferrara, 2007, pp. 18-24, 33-37.

Sale room notice

Please note the present relief has been recently published:
A. Galli, B. Rosa and M. Scansani, Tra arte e industria, La serialità della scultura nel Rinascimento, Rome, 2026, p. 42, fig, 3

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Lot Essay

When this stucco relief of the Virgin and Child was sold at Sotheby’s in 2011, it was unpublished and had just been attributed to Michele da Firenze by Dr. Francesco Caglioti. As Cagliotti noted at the time of the sale, this composition can be compared in particular to a relief in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. 73-1866) and a relief of the Virgin and Child in the Bargello, Florence (inv. no. 265/ 1879).

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