Mary is here a monumental figure, enthroned, clothed in sumptuous brocade and gold, her hair gilded. Jesus is much less grand in girth and turns away to face his mother, but he too wears brocaded royal red, blue, and gold ...

This stucco relief (polychromy only partially preserved) depicts a rather stately Virgin Mary with baby Jesus standing, resting one foot on a plinth. The composition is based on the relief of the Madonna and Child in Andrea ...

This painted wood sculpture of the Madonna and Child is impossible to date or attribute accurately, as it could be a work of c. 1200 or an old-fashioned work of almost a century later. Unlike later versions of the subject, ...

This sculpture of the Madonna and Child, currently housed in the museum in the convent of Ognissanti in Florence, has been attributed on the basis of style to Nanni di Bartolo, one of the classicizing sculptors in the ...

This glazed terracotta relief of the Madonna and Child with Angels and the dove of the Holy Spirit is currently housed in the Oratorio di San Martino (also known as the Oratorio dei Buomuomini) in Florence. It may have ...

This glazed terracotta lunette, originally made for the Pieve of Santa Maria in Montepulciano and currently housed in the Museo Civico, follows a standard format that Luca and Andrea della Robbia used repeatedly (e.g. in ...

This glazed terracotta altarpiece, now housed in the Museo Civico in Montepulciano, was made for the Cappella dei Carceri in the Palazzo Pubblico. The heavy, broad figures are typical of Andrea della Robbia's late works, ...

This half-length glazed terracotta Madonna and Child is currently housed in a street-corner tabernacle on Via della Scala in Florence (at Via degli Orti Oricellari). It is difficult to see, as it is placed high at this ...

This glazed terracotta altarpiece in San Pietro, Radicofani is one of many depicting the Madonna and Child and Saints made by Andrea della Robbia and his workshop. The very successful formula used here and across Tuscany ...

This intimate marble half-length sculpture of the Virgin Mary nursing her son is one of the first (possibly the first) Italian sculpture of the Madonna Lactans, a theme already popular by this point in painting, but not ...