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Date : near 1400
Sizes : 49 cm x 58 cm x 28 cm
Material : Marble, Marks of gilding
Acquisition : Samuel H. Kress Collection (1960)
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Italian Sculpture
Sculpture
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Tuscany (Italy)
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The devotional theme of the Madonna of Humility originated in Sienese painting during the fourteenth century.
Jacopo della Quercia was born in Siena, where he was probably trained by his father, Piero di Angelo. He was active in Lucca, Ferrara, Siena, and Bologna, where he carved works in both marble and wood. As the most important sculptor of Siena, Della Quercia strongly influenced the younger Florentine master Donatello, and, a generation later, Michelangelo.
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