Attributed to Luca della Robbia
1400?-1482,
The Virgin and Child with two kneeling angels
Florence, ca. 1460.
Glazed terracotta.
Lunette, maximum dimensions: 54 x 40 1/4 inches (1372 x 1022 mm.)
AZ155
Provenance
Commissioned by Leonardo Manelli and installed over the doorway in the Manelli Chapel, Oratory of Santa Maria della Querce, Florence; removed when chapel was destroyed by lightning; by descent through marriage to the Antinori family, Florence; Count Piero Antinori (born before 1886), Florence; Elia Volpi (1858-1938), Florence; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1910.
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Inscribed in arch of lunette, SOLI DEO HONORET GLORIA.
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