The Virgin and Child

ca. 1220-1230 · Statuette · 12 × 6.2 cm

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Wo ist „The Virgin and Child“ heute? Sammlung: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Derzeit nicht ausgestellt. Geprüft 25. September 2026.

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, Vereinigtes Königreich

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Geprüft: vor 17 Tagen
Unverändert seit: 25. Sept. 2026
Quelle: Das Museum

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Über die Skulptur

This ivory statuette was made in about 1220-30 in France, probably Paris or Reims. The statuette represents the Virgin holding the Child on her lap.

This is the earliest Gothic ivory in the V&A's collection. In its rigid frontality, with both figures looking straight ahead with inexpressive features, it belongs in the tradition of the late twelfth century as manifested in the stone Virgin and Child of the Porte romane at Reims Cathedral of about 1180-85. But the fuller draperies, with restrained Muldenfaltenstil on the chest of the Virgin, and the broad faces of the figures allow closer comparisons with monumental sculptures in Paris and Reims of the years 1215-35. The Muldenfaltenstil was current in both Paris and Reims.

Three dimensional images of the Virgin and Child were ubiquitous from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, produced in a wide range of materials and sizes and testifying the overwhelming devotion to th Virgin. Together with the Crucifixion, statues and statuettes of the Virgin and Child were the pricipal objects of devotion in the Christian Church, and vast numbers were made for ecclesiastical, monastic and private worship.

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