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Relief with Half Figure of an Angel

ca. 1430–35
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 504
This angel, with its soft facial features and weighty, voluminous folds of drapery, represents the medieval style of sculpture typical of Venice in the early 1400s. The earliest sculpture in this gallery, it belongs to a category of figures in high relief made by itinerant workshops for altarpieces and choir screens in churches in northern Italy and Venice. Saints or angels were often massed together within elaborate architectural frames. Half-length angels such as this one often surrounded images of a saint or the Virgin and Child, becoming heavenly mediators between the divine world and that of the viewer.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Relief with Half Figure of an Angel
  • Date: ca. 1430–35
  • Geography: Made in Venice, Italy
  • Culture: North Italian
  • Medium: Marble (Lunense marble from Carrara)
  • Dimensions: 19 × 25 5/8 × 8 1/8 in., 190 lb. (48.3 × 65.1 × 20.6 cm, 86.2 kg)
  • Classification: Sculpture-Stone
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1948
  • Object Number: 48.184
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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