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Circle of Desiderio Da Settignano
Fragment with Two Seraphimcirca 1460

Not on view
Marble sculpture fragment with three cherub faces and a large carved wing emerging from billowing cloud forms, ivory-white stone with fine feather detail
White marble sculpture, roughly cylindrical in form, carved with three cherub faces emerging from layered feathered wings, with finely detailed plumage and smooth, rounded facial features.

Circle of Desiderio Da Settignano, Fragment with Two Seraphim, circa 1460, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Randolph Hearst Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Circle of Desiderio Da Settignano
Italy, Florence, 1428-1464
Title
Fragment with Two Seraphim
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
circa 1460
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
11 5/8 × 9 × 7 in. (29.46 × 22.86 × 17.78 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
51.18.3
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Valentiner, W.R. Gothic and Renaissance Sculptures: in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1951.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Esguerra, Clarissa, and Michaela Hansen. Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
  • Esguerra, Clarissa M., Michaela Hansen, Katie Somerville, and Danielle Whitfield, editors. Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.