Bruges Madonna
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The plaster sculpture was a gift from Mrs K A Fishwick (ne:Watson) and the Rev J Cawthorne, Head of Art at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School in 1973. The Original by Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptor, is in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Bruges, Belgium where it is known as the Bruges Madonna. ca. 1501-1504
The Victoria and Albert Museum have suggested that it was probably made around 1899 by the firm of Giueseppi Lelli, in Florence.
The exact plaster copy was found, according to a press report at the time, in
a disused room at Blackburn Technical College which had acquired it in the nineteenth century to help with the drawing of classical works of art, which was very much a part of the Victorian curriculum at the time.
