Relief from a Monument to St. Octavian, Volterra Cathedral: Virgin and Child

Artist Tino di Camaino Italian, b. circa 1280, Siena; d. 1337, Naples

Date1318–1320

MediumMarble

Dimensions18 x 19 1/2 x 4 in. (45.7 x 49.5 x 10.2 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.4

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ProvenanceCathedral of Volterra; Nicolini, Florence; Contini-Bonacossi, Rome; Kress acquisition, 1936.Published ReferencesWerner Cohn-Goerke, "Scultori senesi del Trecento," Rivista d'Arte, Anno XXI-Serie II - Anno XI (Firenze: 1939), 11-12.

M[ay] D[avis] H[ill], "Madonna and Child Relief by Tino da Camaino," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), discussed 14, illus. (b-w) 13, fig. 2 (Kress Collection, New York).

Masterpieces of Art: in Memory of William R. Valentiner (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. pp. 20, 36.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 24, illus. (b-w) 25.

Annarosa Garzelli, Sculture toscane nel Dugento e nel Trecento (Florence: Marchi & Bertolli, 1969), 148.

Ulrich Middeldorf, Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century (London: Phaidon Press, 1976), 6f, illus. pl. 2.

Enzo Carli, Volterra nel Medioevo e nel Rinascimento (Pisa: Pacini Editore, 1978), 43-45, illus. fig. 44.

G. Kreytenberg, Tino di Camaino (Firenze: Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1986), 33-34, illus. 33.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 155.

David Steel, entry for Madonna and Child, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 119, illus. (color).

Roberta J. M. Olson, The Florentine Tondo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 131, illus. (b-w) 132.

David Steel, entry for Madonna and Child, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 248, illus. (color) 249.

Kai Hohenfeld, Die Madonnenskupturen des Giovanni Pisano (Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 2014), 20–21, 225.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 40.Exhibition HistoryDetroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, "Exhibition of Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures," January 7-February 20, 1938, cat. no. 10, illus.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. pp. 20, 36.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Center, "Medieval Art," April 28-May 20, 1961, cat. no. 8, illus.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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