
Circle of Jacopo Sansovino
c. 1590
A bronze relief of 'The Institution of the Rosary' produced in the circle of Jacopo Sansovino in mid-16th-century Venice. The Virgin distributes the rosary to Saint Dominic and a kneeling faithful, rendered in the sculpturally fluid idiom of the Venetian Renaissance. Bronze, Art Institute of Chicago.
Image source: Art Institute of Chicago