Mountain of Hell
Sculptures
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Virgin and Child
| Artist | |
|---|---|
| Culture | Italian |
| Date | between 1527 and 1540 |
| Object type | relief |
| Medium, technique | painted papier-maché |
| Dimensions | 130 × 99 × 9 cm, 37.5 kg |
| Inventory number | 4971 |
| Collection | Sculptures |
| On view | Museum of Fine Arts, Second Floor, European Sculpture 1350-1800, Gallery 2 |
Jacopo Sansovino used many different materials in his work, including less durable ones. He and the painter Andrea del Sarto (1486–1531) made decorations for the triumphal procession of Pope Leo X (1513−21) in Florence in 1515. Two types of Madonna are known from Sansovino’s late Venetian period, made of the fragile material of papier mâché (cartapesta). No less than eleven pieces remained from one of the types, but only two from the other of which one is housed in
Budapest. The latter was named the Pardelfell type after a Madonna in Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), wearing a robe with floral pattern looking like a leopard (Pardelfell in German).
References
Balogh, Jolán, Katalog der ausländischen Bildwerke des Museums der bildenden Künste in Budapest, IV – XVIII. Jahrhundert: 1. Textband Bd. 1, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1975, p. 159-160., no. 206.
Szmodisné Eszláry, Éva, A Régi Szoborgyűjtemény kincsei, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1994, p. 26.
Szmodisné Eszláry, Éva, The treasures of the Old Sculpture collection, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1994, p. 26.
This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.