Description
Polychrome wood carving in tempera and gilded.
Height: 28 cm.
Wooden reproduction of a Romanesque virgin, original unknown.
In Romanesque art (11th-13th centuries) religious sculptures are dedicated on the one hand to representing the crucified Christ and on the other, the Virgin seated with the child on her lap, images that refer to ancient representations of Mediterranean mother goddesses such as the Egyptian goddess Isis with the child Horus.
The iconography of the Romanesque virgins responds to the same canon, that of the Theotokos, in which Mary acts as the throne holding and presenting the Son of God to the world. The Romanesque style is characterised by its hieratism and frontality; there is no communication between the Virgin and Child.
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