Virgin & Child

The inscription on the front of the base reads: M.D.?AMBRS TAIAPREDA DI MAZOLIS/ XXXVI. The word 'Taiapreda' is a Venetian dialect form of the Italian 'Tagliapietra', meaning stone-cutter. The sculptor may be identical with one bearing the same first name who received payment in May 1524 for work on the Scuola di Dan Rocco, one of the main religious confraternities in Venice. The statue may have formed the centre of a more extensive group, and the gaze of both Virgin and Child was probably directed towards figures of donors who wuld have commissioned and paid for the work. The marble is weathered and was probably situated on the outside of a building, perhaps in a lunette above a doorway.

Sulla scultura

Scheda

Nella stessa sala · Sculpture 1300-1600, Room 27, Victoria and Albert Museum

Sullo stesso tema · Mary (Virgin Mary)

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Che cosa raffigura

In catalogo

Fonti

The Virgin and Child, ca. 1550-1600

St. Peter, second half 16th century

St. Paul, second half 16th century

A Saint, ca. 1526-1533

Two mourning women, ca. 1525-1550

St Anne, The Virgin and Child, 1520-25

Virgin and child, ca. 1519-1528

the Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1515-1520

The Entombment, 1550-1580

Virgin and Child with kneeling members of the Guild of the Misericordia, ca. 1445 - 1450

The Virgin and Child with St Dorothy, ca. 1460-1500

Virgin and Child with Four Angels (Chellini Madonna), ca. 1450

Virgin and Child, ca. 1850 - 1857

Virgin and Child with the young St John the Baptist, 1475-1500

Christ and (on the reverse) the dead Christ, 16th century

St Anne with the Virgin and Child, ca. 1510