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17th Century Madonna with Child from the Impruneta Tondo Polychrome Terracotta
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Tuscan school, 17th century
Madonna with Child - from the Impruneta Tondo
Measures: Polychrome terracotta, 65 x 46 x 10 cm
This polychrome terracotta relief, gently jutting out in a modeled virtuosity that defines a serene Virgin with Child on her lap, takes on the prospect of a bas-relief with a curved shape. The relief is outlined by a border of tripartite leaves interspersed with cherub heads, to define a solid delimitation of the spaces. The enveloping maphorion of the Virgin occupies a large part of the fake blind aedicule that is created; the caressing act of the Son, clinging with one hand to his clothes so as not to fall, thus counterbalances the sinuosity of the Mother's mantle. The surfaces, perfectly smoothed, introduce a staid spiritual climate, encouraged by the sweet general mold.
The group is affected by the iconographic invention of the canonical Madonna and Child painted on a fifteenth-century panel, prototype for the subsequent sculptural transposition. The particular choice of the Madonna seated with her Son resting on her knees became a common type in the Florentine territory in the early fifteenth century, so much so that it was a favorite order among private patrons who ordered small devotional paintings. The present terracotta derives in particular from the marble tondo of Impruneta, replicating an analogous subject but transposed on marble, made by the workshop of Benedetto da Maiano (1442-1497). The tondo, of almost equal dimensions (65 cm high) was placed in the right chapel of the presbytery of the basilica of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta (Florence), on the left wall, above the tomb of Antonio degli Agli. Attributed initially to Benedetto da Rovezzano by Bianchini and Cagnacci, the Tondo was most likely to have a dialogue with the sepulcher of Antonio, whose sarcophagus was made by a (another?) Follower of Benedetto da Maiano. The re-attribution of the Tondo took place on the occasion of the setting up of the Museum of the Church of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta, opened to the public in 1987. It was Ulrich Alexander Middeldorf who attributed it to the more direct, if not contemporary, sequel of the famous Benedetto da Maiano, also on the basis of the comparison with his Madonna and Child of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, executed between the seventies and eighties of the fifteenth century,
Over the centuries, the church of Impruneta abounded in particular artistic works, such as the two tabernacles flanking the altar, made by Michelozzo and Luca della Robbia.
- Dimensions:Height: 25.6 in (65 cm)Width: 18.12 in (46 cm)Depth: 3.94 in (10 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:17th Century
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Milan, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU5918226733912
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