Cleveland Museum of Art
Virgin and Child
Pietro Lombardo
- Date
- c. 1475–1485
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- Italy, Venice
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In the later 1400s, artists increasingly infused sacred subject matter with a classical vocabulary. The shallow relief and simplified forms ultimately stemmed from ancient sculpture, bringing gravity as well as novelty to a conventional theme. Yet naturalistic elements such as the baby’s bulging navel, chubby wrists, and shirt pulled up to reveal his genitals all humanize Christ, a critical principle of Christian dogma.
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