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On display at V&A South Kensington
Medieval & Renaissance, Room 10

Virgin and Child

Relief
ca. 1330 (made)
Artist/Maker
Camaino, Tino Di (maker)
Place of origin
Naples (made)

This Virgin and Child marble relief is made by Tino di Camaino in Italy, possibly Naples, in 1330.
Camaino (ca. 1280 - ca. 1337) worked in Siena, Pisa, Florence and Naples for some of the most powerful Guelph and Ghibelline patrons of the day. The roots of his style are to be found in late 13th-century Siena, but during his long stay in Ghibelline Pisa it grew nearer to that of Giovanni Pisano.


Object details

Categories
Christianity
Reliefs
Sculpture
Object type
Relief
TitleVirgin and Child (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Carved marble
Marble
Carving
Brief description
Relief, marble, Virgin and Child, by Tino di Camaino, Italy (possibly Naples), ca. 1330
Physical description
Marble relief depicting the madonna and child. The Madonna is crowned and holds a pomegranate, christ holds a chafinch.
Dimensions
  • Height: 48cm
  • Width: 37.2cm
  • Depth: 5cm
Measured for the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries
Object history
Bought from K. J. Hewett, Ltd., London, for £2000 (Murray Bequest £600, Horn Bequest £900 & Bryab Bequest £500). Formerly in the Loeser Collection, Florence. In 1923 then relief was in the hands of a dealer in Rome, passing to the Loeser collection at a later date, from which is was bought by Hewett at Sotheby's in 1959 (lot no. 175, £3,800).
Subject depicted
Virgin and Child
Summary
This Virgin and Child marble relief is made by Tino di Camaino in Italy, possibly Naples, in 1330.
Camaino (ca. 1280 - ca. 1337) worked in Siena, Pisa, Florence and Naples for some of the most powerful Guelph and Ghibelline patrons of the day. The roots of his style are to be found in late 13th-century Siena, but during his long stay in Ghibelline Pisa it grew nearer to that of Giovanni Pisano.
Bibliographic references
  • Wilhelm R. Valentiner, 'Studies in Italian Gothic Art, I, Tino di Camaino', Art in America, XI, 1923, 304
  • Enzo Carli, Tino di Camaino, scultore, Florence, 1934, 47-8, 97
  • Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Tino di Camaino: a Sienese Sculptore of the fourteenth century, Paris, 1935, 119, 162, pl. 56C
  • Ottavio Morisani, Tino di Camaino a Napoli, Naples, 1945, 125, note 2
  • Herbert Friedman, The Symbolic Goldfinch, Washington, 1946, 14-15, 20
  • Ulrich Alexander Middledorf, Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, European Schools, XIV-XIX century, London, 1976, 6
  • James K. Kettlewell, The Hyde Collection Catalogue, New York, 1981, cat 5. p. 11
  • Gert Kreytenberg, "Ein doppelseitiges Triptychon in Marmor von Tino di Camaino aus der Zeit um 1334", in T. Michalsky (ed.), Medien der Macht. Kunst zur Zeit der Anjous in Italien (Akten der internationalen Tagung im Liebeghaus - Museum Alter Plastik, 21-23 November 1997), Berlin, 2001, 261-274, esp. 268, fig. 6.
  • Marguerite, Marie-Lys and Dectot, Xavier, ed. by, D'Or et D'Ivoire, Paris, Pise, Florence, Sienne, 1250-1320, Snooeck and Louvre Lens, 2015, exh. cat., pp. 163
  • Read, Benedict and Thistlewood, David (Eds.), Herbert Read: a British vision of world art, Leeds, Leeds City Art Galleries, 1993
Collection
Sculpture Collection
Accession number
A.31-1964

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Record createdMarch 20, 2009
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