Virgin and Child

probably 1520s (Renaissance)

61 cm 106.1 cm 40.6 cm

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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...

Sculpture

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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.
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