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Virgin and child
da Fiesole, Mino, born 1429 - died 1484 - Enlarge image
Virgin and child
- Object:
Plaster cast
- Place of origin:
Florence, Italy (sculpted)
- Date:
Second half of the Fifteenth century (sculpted)
ca. 1889 (cast) - Artist/Maker:
da Fiesole, Mino, born 1429 - died 1484 (after, sculptor)
- Materials and Techniques:
Plaster cast
- Museum number:
REPRO.1889-98
- Gallery location:
In Storage
The original marble relief of which this is a cast was formerly in the Palazzo Mozzi in Florence. It was acquired in 1885 by the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin, and
was destroyed in 1945. This cast is therefore a vitally important record of the destroyed marble. Such depictions of the Virgin and Child were devotional items, sometimes displayed, like this ones, in secular contexts.
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