Madonna of the Stairs [SEP] collection
Madonna of the Stairs
The Madonna of the Stairs (or Madonna of the Steps) is a relief sculpture by Michelangelo in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence. It was sculpted around 1490, when Michelangelo was about fifteen. This and the "Battle of the Centaurs" were Michelangelo's first two sculptures. The first reference to the "Madonna of the Stairs" as a work by Michelangelo was in the 1568 edition of Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects".
The sculpture
Madonna of the Stairs (Correggio)
The Madonna of the Stairs ("Madonna della Scala") is a fresco fragment (196 by 141 cm) by Correggio, dating to around 1522-1523 and now in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma.
History.
It was originally part of a fresco on the internal facade of the east gate of Parma, known as the San Michele gate and the start of the route to Reggio Emilia. It was seen there and praised by Vasari. When the walls were