Marble sculpture Madonna of the Rose on an external niche of the Orsanmichele Church in the historic centre of Florence, Unesco Site, Tuscany, Italy

Marble sculpture Madonna of the Rose on an external niche of the Orsanmichele Church in the historic centre of Florence, Unesco Site, Tuscany, Italy Stock Photo

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2934 x 5546 px | 24.8 x 47 cm | 9.8 x 18.5 inches | 300dpi

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20 October 2019

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Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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The Madonna of the Rose (Madonna della Rosa) is a 2.2 meter high marble sculpture of the Madonna and Child enthroned, with the Child trying to take a bunch of rosa canina from his mother's hand. It forms part of a cycle of fourteen sculptures of the patron saints of the guilds of Florence on the external niches of the Orsanmichele church. No documents survive to precisely date it, leading to several theories and attributions. Most art historians attribute it to Piero di Giovanni Tedesco, a German or Flemish sculptor active in Florence. The Madonna was commissioned by the 'Arte dei Medici e Speziali' and completed around 1399. A Latin inscription on the base of the niche records damage to the sculpture in 1493: a man cut the statue with an iron bar, but was immediately chased and lynched to death by some passers-by. An object of great popular devotion, for safety it was moved inside the church in 1628 and a copy fills its original external niche.

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