Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Madonna del Perdono (Madonna of Forgiveness)
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Alternate Title:
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Madonna con Bambino e angeli
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Image View:
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Raking view from left showing depth of roundel
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Creator:
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workshop of Donatello (Italian sculptor, ca. 1386-1466)
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Location:
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repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza Duomo, 8
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GPS:
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+43.3177+11.3296
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Date:
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ca. 1457-1459 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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relief (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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91 cm (height) x 82.5 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; saints; Angels; Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Description:
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This roundel was originally above a door in Siena Cathedral, removed about 1660. In 1457 Donatello actually moved to Siena in order to work on a side chapel and on some bronze doors for the cathedral. From his stay there only a large marble roundel of the Virgin and Child over the Porta del Perdono of the cathedral, finished by assistants, survives. (The door project was abandoned.) (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-DB-SO-MDP-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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