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The Christ Child: Intimacy and Innocence in Renaissance Art
Standing boy
Gallery 536 · Andrea Mantegna|Andrea del Verrocchio · late 15th–early 16th century · Met web page
After Andrea Mantegna, late 15th-early 16th century. A standing boy in bronze, shown in virtuosic contrapposto with the defiant verve of a child Hercules.
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Stay in Gallery 536. This bronze figure is displayed nearby, showing how Renaissance sculptors studied and depicted the human form of children.