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Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Anthony of Padua
(Renaissance Europe )
This bronze relief was made for a private, devotional setting. It represents a "sacra conversazione" (literally "holy conversation"), showing the Virgin and Child flanked by two saints. The slightly awkward style, with its mixture of old-fashioned and new elements (the stiff lion and the lack of perspective on one hand and the novelty of the classical shape of the Virgin's throne on the other) is similar to that of the huge bronze doors for St. Peter's in Rome, created between 1433 and 1445 by the Florentine sculptor, architect, and theorist Antonio Averlino, known as Filarete.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1971-1972 | World of Wonder. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 10/29/1958 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 1/9/1967 | Treatment | cleaned |
Geographies
Italy, Rome (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 11 1/4 × W: 10 3/8 × D: 1/2 in. (28.58 × 26.35 × 1.27 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.1244