God the Father Blessing

1450/60

Italian, possibly Tuscany

Status: On View, Gallery 237
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Luca della Robbia
Title: God the Father Blessing
Place: Italy (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1395–1405
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 78.7 × 55.9 cm (31 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
Reference Number: 1973.670
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Francesco Negri Arnoldi, “An Exhibition of Italian Sculpture in London,” Burlington Magazine 114, 834 (1972), p. 646, fig. 62.
Charles Avery, “Three Marble Reliefs by Luca della Robbia,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 8 (1976), pp. 6–37, figs. 1, 17.
John Pope-Hennessy, Luca della Robbia (Oxford, 1980), p. 273, no. 84, fig. 55.

London, Heim Gallery, “Sculptures of the 15th & 16th Centuries,” 30 May – 8 September 1972, no. 3.

Possibly Church of S. Martino a Mensola, Fiesole, Italy, c. 1450 [see London 1972 exh. cat.]. Amalia Mondasi, Rome, before 1968 [according to receipt dated October 16, 1968, in Heim Gallery Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Luigi Albrighi, 1968 [according to letter from Ulrich Middeldorf to Ettore Viancini, November 25, 1968, in Heim Gallery Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Ettore Viancini, Venice, 1968 [according to Commission Book, 1970-85, Heim Gallery Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Heim Gallery, London, by 1972; sold to the Art Institute, 1973.

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