Relief: Madonna and child with angels

This plaster cast of a marble relief of the Virgin and Child with angels is from the workshop of Agostino di Duccio. Agostino di Duccio (1418 – c. 1481) was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor. In 1446, he studied late Gothic sculpture in Venice and met Matteo de' Pasti, a fellow sculptor who called on him to execute the sculptural decoration of the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, where he stayed from 1449 to 1457. The decorations were supposed to be a sort of mediaeval encyclopedia, with reliefs of zodiacal and other allegorical and mythological figures.