IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 29635 accession number: M.6-1926 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Relief of the Virgin and Child, painted and gilt stucco. The half-length Virgin embraces Christ Child who is standing on her left-hand side. The face of the Virgin touches the face of Christ Child, who clasps His mother’s veil with his left hand and holds himself on his mother’s right shoulder with his right hand. A classical-style band runs across the top of the Virgin’s head and through her curly hair, showing from the veil pushed backwards. Both the haloes are finely decorated. In the top part of the relief there is a garland hanging behind the Virgin’s head. The relief is in a glazed rectangular carved and gilt wood frame title: relief NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29635 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary Christ CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1460 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1460 culture: 15th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Desiderio da Settignano DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 4 dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 43.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 61.7 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_6_1926.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_M_6_1926.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/M_6_1926.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_M_6_1926.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels