The Virgin and Child

15th century to early 16th century · Statuette

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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

Es gehört zur Sammlung, ist derzeit aber nicht ausgestellt.

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

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This is an ivory statuette of the Virgin and Child, made in Italy (Sicily), possibly fifteenth or early sixteenth century, after a mid-fourteenth-century model.

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 ecclesisastical, monastic and private worship.

The present Virgin and Child statuette follows the form of the Madonna in the church of SS. Annunziata in Trapani, Sicily. This over-life-size marble statue, stylistically in the mid-fourteenth-century orbit of Nino Pisano, was much venerated; It rapidly gained a reputation for its miraculous properties and by the fifteenth century copies were being made in good numbers by Francesco Laurana and others (Kruft 1970). This copying quickly turned into mass-production in different materials and varying sizes: most of these are in marble or alabaster, but several examples in ivory are known, including a more frontally-posed version in Bolgona (Venturi 1906, fig. 743). It seems likely that the present piece acted in turn as the model for a larger ivory Virgin and Child, also in the V&A (V&A Mus. no: A.550-1910).

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