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| Keywords: Italian - Votive Plaque with the Virgin and Child and Saints Dominic and Thomas Aquinas - Walters 481377.jpg This piece may have been commissioned as a votive offering meaning that it was intended as a gift of thanks to the Virgin Mary and the two represented Dominican saints If so it would have been installed in a chapel in a church The donors are shown below perhaps a parent and four children Despite the somewhat awkward style of the plaque the painter has attempted to portray the ground according to the Renaissance rules of linear perspective The two holes above would have been used to suspend the object from a wall ca 1520 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica and luster decoration cm 38 37 6 accession number 48 1377 14270 Rusca date and mode of acquisition unknown no 55 J P Morgan date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Inscription On the back of the frame in ink Opera di M ello Giorgio Andreoli pervenuta dalla Galleria Ripo sata di Gubbio a Giuseppe Raffaeli di Urbania 18 2 8 place of origin Gubbio Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Thomas Aquinas Saint Dominic Madonna and Child | ||||
