ROCCATAGLIATA, Nicolò
(b. before 1593, Genova, d. 1636, Venezia)

Virgin and Child

1610s
Bronze, height 57 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Numerous small bronzes of vastly varying quality have been attributed to Roccatagliata; if only a fraction of the music-making angels attributed to him actually came from his shop, it must have been a flourishing enterprise. Certainly by him are a seated Virgin and Child (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), as well as Adam and Eve and two music-making putti (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).




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