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Virgin and Child
(Renaissance Europe )
A secret technique of sculpting in clay to which, when baked,were applied soft but intensely luminous glazes was developed by Luca della Robbia (1399/1400-1482) in the mid 1400s in Florence. His pieces became popular and his family workshop thrived well into the 1500s. But the Buglioni family covertly acquired the technical details of the method and went on to produce their own fine but less revolutionary sculpture, as this graceful, dignified Virgin and Child by Santi Buglioni.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Emile Gaillard, Paris, 1904 [mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 397]; Raoul Heilbronner, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2021-2022 | Majolica Mania. The Bard Graduate Center, New York; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2016-2017 | Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence . Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment | Cleaned | |
| Treatment | Surfaces were cleaned and prior restorations retouched in preparation for exhibition. | |
| 6/20/1962 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 6/28/1971 | Treatment | other |
| 12/31/1987 | Examination | examined for condition |
| 12/31/1987 | Treatment | cleaned; loss compensation |
| 10/27/2015 | Examination | Examined in preparation for exhibition. |
| 10/27/2015 | Examination | Examined |
Geographies
Italy (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 41 3/4 × W: 24 × D: 16 in. (106.05 × 60.96 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912
Location in Museum
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.218