Artist

(active 1450-1500 in Siena)

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Details

Italian sculptor or group of sculptors. A number of reliefs of the Virgin and Child have been collected together under this name. All show the Virgin turned three-quarter face, standing behind a parapet upon which the Infant Christ reclines, raising his hand in benediction. Variations occur in the decoration of the parapet and the presence or absence of candelabra and putti's heads in the sky. In some examples the Virgin holds a cartouche. By the 1990s nine marble examples were known: Siena, Galleria Chigi-Saracini; Paris, Musée du Louvre (2 pieces); Pesaro, Museo Civico; Florence, Museo Bardini; London, Victoria and Albert Museum; Pianiga (Padua), parish church; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and one in private collection. //

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Category	Artists
Artists by letter	M
Artist nationality	Italian