Madonna and Child
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Authors
Andrea della Robbia
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Madonna , Child , Virgin , Jesus , Mary
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Abstract
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 busy cross-roads and is protected by what looks to be dirty plexi-glass. The work has the Medici coat of arms on the base. It may have been made originally for domestic devotion inside the home, or it may have been always intended to reign protectively over the public sphere. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Via della Scala, Florence
Citation
Giancarlo Gentilini, I Della Robbia (Florence: Cantini, 1992), I: 260; Edward Muir, "The Virgin on the Street Corner: The Place of the Sacred in Italian Cities," in Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Steven Ozment (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1989), 25-40.