Florence

This very sweet Madonna and Child in stucco descends from a very successful model that dates back to the beginning of the 15th century in Florence. The archetype, or one of those that may have constituted the typological matrix for this work is identified in a beautiful half-length figure of the Madonna and Child of the typology of the Episcopal Seminary of Fiesole today exhibited at the Bandini Museum.

On the paternity of this model, critics, divided between those who attribute it to Lorenzo Ghiberti or Filippo Brunelleschi in his younger years, tend today to consider it as a work of art by the Florentine Master Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and goldsmith, famous for the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence. 

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