Madonna and Child

About the Artwork

This relief is one of four produced for the ciborium (canopy) erected by Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville over the high altar of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The ciborium was taken apart in 1747 and the other three panels--Christ Blessing, The Annunciation, and Saints Peter and Paul--were set into the walls of the sacristy.

Exhibition history

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).

Quick Overview

Artist: Mino da Fiesole (Italian, c. 1430–1484)
Date: by 1461
Medium: marble with traces of gilding
Dimensions: Overall: 93.7 x 80 x 12.7 cm (36 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 5 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: Sculpture
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Leonard C. Hanna
Accession no.: 1928.747

Provenance

by 1461 - after 1839 Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome, Italy), dismantled in 1747, components moved to the Capitolo Liberiano after 1839 before 1890 - 1910 Count Gregory Stroganoff, 1829-1910 (Rome, Italy), by inheritance to his daughter, Maria Gregorievna Scerbatoff, 1910 1910 Maria Gregorievna Scerbatoff, died 1920, conveyed all rights of inheritance to her son and daughter, Vladimir and Aleksandra Scherbatoff, 1910 1910-20 Vladimir and Aleksandra Scherbatoff, died 1920, by inheritance to the wife of Vladimir Scherbatoff and their children, Elena Petrovna Scerbatov, Olga Vladimirovna, Maria Vladimirovna, 1920, 1920-28 Princess Elena Petrovna Scerbatov, and their children, Princess Olga Vladimirovna and Princess Maria Vladimirovna, sold through Giacomo Nunes and Harold W. Parsons, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.