Madonna della Misericordia
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unknown artist (after Bernardo Rossellino)
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Madonna , Misericordia , Virgin , Mary
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Abstract
This work was long thought by scholars to be Bernardo Rossellino's small terracotta model for his stone Madonna of the Misericordia (Madonna del Manto) for the façade of the Palazzo della Fraternità in Arezzo. Anne Markham Schulz has convincingly argued that this is instead a work done by an unknown artist after Rossellino's monumental relief, as the figures that are large scale and projecting in high relief (namely the Madonna and Child) are almost identical in the terracotta, but those that would be more difficult, if not impossible, to see from the ground are done quite differently. This painted and gilded terracotta sculpture is housed in the Museo Nazionale in Arezzo. Photograph(s) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Museo Nazionale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna, Arezzo; Collezione Fraternita dei Laici, Arezzo
Citation
Anne Markham Schulz, The Sculpture of Bernardo Rossellino and his Workshop (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977), 92.