Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Madonna del Perdono (Madonna of Forgiveness)

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title: 
Madonna del Perdono (Madonna of Forgiveness)
Alternate Title: 
Madonna con Bambino e angeli
Image View: 
Raking view from left showing depth of roundel
Creator: 
workshop of Donatello (Italian sculptor, ca. 1386-1466)
Location: 
repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Siena, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza Duomo, 8
GPS: 
+43.3177+11.3296
Date: 
ca. 1457-1459 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1: 
relief (sculpture)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
marble
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Measurements: 
91 cm (height) x 82.5 cm (width)
Subjects: 
New Testament; saints; Angels; Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier: 
7A1-DB-SO-MDP-A05
Rights: 
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