Andrea Pisano's marble relief of the Madonna and Child with maiolica insets was originally located above the north door of the campanile, or bell tower, beside the cathedral in Florence. The striking blue colour of the ...

This almost life-size creche scene in San Marco in Florence has been attributed to Giovanni della Robbia. (Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, and the infant St. John seem to be done by one artist, whereas the two figures currently ...

This low relief, made of painted plaster of paris, is a copy of a relief made by someone in the circle of Antonio Rossellino in ca. 1465. Many such low reliefs images of the Madonna and Child were reproduced using molds. ...

This glazed terracotta altarpiece (in San Michele Arcangelo, Foiano della Chiana) is a smaller version of Andrea della Robbia's altarpiece of the same subject in La Verna, mimicking closely the arrangement of the figures, ...

Domenico Gagini, the patriarch of family of sculptors, was born in Bissone (modern Switzerland) and then traveled south, working in Brunelleschi's shop before settling in Sicily, where he and his descendants had a flourishing ...

This under-life-size painted wood crucifix, made in the late Trecento, is currently housed in the Museo di Villa Guinigi in Lucca. The cross is modern, the hands have been heavily restored, and the original polychromy only ...

This Madonna and Child (currently in the Pinacoteca Civica, Volterra) is one of many made for domestic devotion in the fifteenth century, some of which were reproduced with molds, as is this example. It is made out of ...

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 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 lunette, now in the portico of the Accademia dei Belli Arti in Florence, was made for Santa Chiara in Florence, a small church which was renovated under the patronage of Jacopo Borgianni starting in ...