Desiderio da Settignano (Workshop of)
Italian, 1428-1464

Madonna and Child, 1500/25

Painted stucco
24 x 17 in. (61 x 43.2 cm) (not including frame)
27 3/4 x 21 in. (70.5 x 53.5 cm) (including frame)
Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer, 1985.111

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

For comparison, see:

W. Bode, Italienische Bildhauer der Renaissance (Berlin, 1887), p. 55.

W. Bode, Denkmaler der Renaissance-Sculptor Toscanas (Munich, 1892-1905), pp. 93-94.

Clarence Kennedy, "Documenti inediti su Desiderio da Settignano e la sua famiglia," Rivista d'Arte XII (1930), p. 257.

L. Planiscig, Desiderio da Settignano (Vienna, 1942), pp. 13.

I. Cardellini, Desiderio da Settignano (Milan, 1962), figs. 368-74.

J. Pope-Hennessy, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1964), no. 115.

C. Avery, Florentine Renaissance Sculpture (London, 1970), p. 109.

N. Gabrielli, Galleria Sabauda, maestri italiani (Turin, 1971), p. 261.

B. Santi, ed., Neri di Bicci, Le Ricordanze (Pisa, 1976), p. 239.

A. M. Schultz,"Desiderio da Settignano," Dizionario biografico italiano 39 (Rome, 1991), pp. 385-90.

N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to Present Day 1 (Oxford, 1992), p. 29.

A. M. Schulz, "Glosses on the Career of Desiderio da Settignano," Verrochio and Late Quattrocento Italian Sculpture, edited by S. Bule et al. (Florence, 1992), p. 186.

A. V. Coonin, The Sculpture of Desidrio da Settignano, doctoral dissertation (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 1995), pp. 177-79.

J. Pope-Hennessy, Italian Renaissance Sculpture (London, 1996), p. 375.

A. Butterfield, Early Renaissance Reliefs (New York: Salander-O'Reilley Gallery, 2000), no. 5.

Ownership History

Collection of Gordon Palmer (died 1964) and Janis Palmer (died 1984), Chicago, by 1957 (according to shipping invoice and annotated registrar’s card in curatorial file). Lent by the Palmers (anonymously) to the Art Institute, 1957 (according to registrar’s card in curatorial file). Bequest of Janis Palmer to the Art Institute, 1985.