Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Madonna del Latte

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Madonna del Latte
Alternate Title: 
Tomb of Francesco Nori
Image View: 
Detail, white marble drapery replicating brocade, wrapping around the column
Creator: 
Antonio Rossellino (Italian sculptor, 1427-1479)
Location: 
repository: Santa Croce (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza di Santa Croce, 16; first southern column in the basilica
GPS: 
+43.768417+11.262722
Date: 
ca. 1478-1479 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1: 
relief (sculpture)
Work Type 2: 
monument
Work Type 3: 
holy water stoup
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
porphyry; white marble; bronze
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Subjects: 
death or burial; funerary art; New Testament; Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1449-1492; Pazzi Conspiracy
Description: 
The work was created by Antonio Rossellino after 1478, the year in which the client Francesco Nori, head of the Medici bank, died saving the life of Lorenzo de ’Medici during the bloody Pazzi Conspiracy. The floor tomb is at the foot of the first southern column in the basilica; mounted to it are a small base surround, a holy water font with bronze candelabra, and a marble relief that rises vertically like an altarpiece. The Madonna and Child are depicted against a mandorla of red porphyry. Rising behind this is a finial-topped, tent-like drape with a fine bas-relief that actually replicates a pattern of velvet brocade in use at the time. The work is popularly known as the Madonna del latte, although reasons for the title are not clear. (Source: Santa Croce in Florence [website, blog]; https://santacroceinflorence.wordpress.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
6A1-RA-ML-B14
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.