Virgin with Child
Giovanni Pisano, Casting Workshop of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (cast maker)No image available
- Artist
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Giovanni Pisano
Pisa 1245/1250 körül – 1319 előtt Siena
Casting Workshop of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
(cast maker)
Berlin, 20. század első fele
- Dated
- ca. 1305 (original), 1909 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 153 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.133
- Department
- Sculptures - Plaster casts
- Current Location of the Original Artwork
- Italy, Padua, Scrovegni Chapel
The wealthy Paduan banker, Enrico Scrovegni commissioned three statues for his famous family chapel (built between 1302 and 1305) from Giovanni Pisano (ca. 1250 – ca. 1315), who worked on the Pulpit of Pisa Cathedral at that time. The marble statue of the Madonna with the Child stands on the altar, flanked by two deacons holding candles. Commissioned by the museum in 1909, the cast of the Virgin and the Child was made in the plaster casting workshop of Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, in Berlin. It was exhibited in the Romanesque Hall, in 1910. Probably lost during World War II, current whereabouts of the artwork are unknown.