# Virgin and Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SANSOVINO, Andrea]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary In the period following his return from Portugal to Italy, Sansovino became established as a sculptor of large-scale figures. He gained two important commissions for monumental marble figural groups, a Baptism \(1502\) for the east doors of the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral and at about the same time a Virgin and Child and St John the Baptist, both for Genoa Cathedral. These figures, his first to demonstrate the Classical canon of anatomical proportion and pose, are notable for their nobility, dignity and grace. The picture shows the statue of Virgin and Child in the Cappella di San Giovanni of Genoa Cathedral. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Corbinelli Altar]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico \(detail\)]() - [Frieze for the portico]() - [Madonna and Child with St Anne]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()