Detail of Madonna of the Pomegranate (1403–06) by Jacopo della Quercia. Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Putto, 1935, by Giuseppe Virgili. Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Niche sculpture in Ferrara Cathedral. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Zingaretta (copy of the Zingara of Villa Borghese, now in the Louvre), 18th century. Collection of the Musei Civici di Arte Antica e Museo Riminaldi, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Display in the Musei Civici di Arte Antica e Museo Riminaldi, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Infant suckled by a goat (Capricorn), c. 1225–30, by the Master of the Months of Ferrara (active in the first half of the 13th century). Cathedral Museum, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.
Moor by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680). This small bronze sculpture was a model for the figure of the Nile that forms part Bernini’s fountain at Piazza Navona in Rome. Collection of the Musei Civici di Arte Antica e Museo Riminaldi, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.