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Source Description
A drapery has been pulled back to reveal the Virgin Mary standing inside a chapel, tenderly holding her infant son. In this sophisticated combination of high and low relief, the actual light in the room creates shaded drapery folds. The illusionism of the relief (as in the leg of the angel that extends into the viewer's space) is indebted to trends in earlier baroque sculpture, but here the impression is much airier: the Virgin's wavy draperies almost seem to move upwards.Giosafatti would have learned this style while working in Rome, where the influence of Gian Lorenzo Bernini remained strong. This is possibly a model for a larger work in stone or stucco that is now lost.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
28610
label
Madonna and Child with Angels
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
28610
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Madonna and Child with Angels
description
A drapery has been pulled back to reveal the Virgin Mary standing inside a chapel, tenderly holding her infant son. In this sophisticated combination of high and low relief, the actual light in the room creates shaded drapery folds. The illusionism of the relief (as in the leg of the angel that extends into the viewer's space) is indebted to trends in earlier baroque sculpture, but here the impression is much airier: the Virgin's wavy draperies almost seem to move upwards.Giosafatti would have learned this style while working in Rome, where the influence of Gian Lorenzo Bernini remained strong. This is possibly a model for a larger work in stone or stucco that is now lost.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1757 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
reliefs
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
80.7
height
46.5
dimensionsRaw
31 3/4 x 18 5/16 in. (80.7 x 46.5 cm)
Source extras
med
terracotta
creator_ids
2227
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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7815a25b98df8ea4