Medici Madonna (model for Medardo Rosso's casts in bronze and wax over plaster)
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Like many sculptors before him, Rosso made studies from Michelangelo’s unfinished altar decoration in the Medici Chapel in Florence. Rosso found this anonymous plaster cast somewhere in or near the Musée de Louvre and cast it, along with other plaster reductions of famous ancient and Renaissance sculptures, in bronze and wax over plaster.
Artwork Details
- Title: Medici Madonna (model for Medardo Rosso's casts in bronze and wax over plaster)
- Artist: Anonymous copy of Johan Gregor van der Schardt 's
- Artist: reduction of an original in marble by Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Date: ca. 1900
- Geography: Country of Origin Italy
- Medium: Plaster
- Dimensions: 10 × 6 5/16 × 7 1/16 in., 59.959oz. (25.4 × 16 × 18 cm, 1.7 kg)
- Classification: Sculpture-Plaster
- Credit Line: Private collection
- Rights and Reproduction: Image courtesy Museo Medardo Rosso, Barzio, Italy
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art