# Virgin and Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DESIDERIO DA SETTIGNANO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Marble, 61 x 36 cm ## Commentary Desiderio da Settignano employed the "schiacciato" relief \(flattened relief\) approach that Donatello invented, but his language was more refined and less connected with classical antiquity. ## Related artworks - [A Little Boy]() - [A Little Boy]() - [Crucifix]() - [Laughing Boy]() - [Mary Magdalene]() - [Mary Magdalene]() - [Mary Magdalene]() - [Meeting of Christ and St John the Baptist as Youth]() - [Portrait of Marietta Strozzi]() - [St Jerome in the Desert]() - [Tabernacle \(detail\)]() - [Tabernacle \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()