DONATELLO
(b. ca. 1386, Firenze, d. 1466, Firenze)

Madonna and Child with Four Cherubs

c. 1440
Terracotta
Bode Museum, Berlin

Still partly medieval in its iconography, the heads of Mary and Jesus touch in a manner also seen in the artist's Pazzi Madonna. The work was badly damaged in the 1945 fire, with breaks in several places and losing its traces of polychromy.




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