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Charity by Giovanni di Balduccio

Medieval · Italy

Giovanni di Balduccio

1290–1349

Italian artist (1300-1349).

At a glance

Life
1290–1349
Origin
Italy
Practice
sculptor, architect
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Biography

Giovanni di Balduccio (1290–1349) is described by Wikidata as Italian artist (1300-1349). The linked open-data record associates the artist with Italy. Recorded practices include sculptor, architect.

Charity, held by National Gallery of Art, provides a verified collection point from which to explore the artist’s sculpture. The museum record supplies the work’s date, material, dimensions, credit line, and reusable image.

Research links

National Gallery of Art collection recordWikidataWikipedia

In the collection

Works to explore

Shown from the thighs up, a woman and two children are carved in high and low relief on this white marble, vertically oriented rectangular panel. The woman’s body faces us, but she cranes her neck sharply to look up and to our left. She has rounded features and wears a veil that drapes over her head and long robe. She holds up a scroll carved with the word “CHARITAS” in her right hand, to our left, and wraps her other hand around the shoulders of two small children in the lower right. The children face her and tip their heads back, and they appear to drink streams of liquid coming from a flame-shape on her chest. The trio are enclosed in a quatrefoil shape, which has lobes at each corner separated by points along each edge. Stepped molding frames the quatrefoil.

Medieval

National Gallery of Art

Charity

Giovanni di Balduccio · c. 1330