Virgin and Child
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Londra, Regno Unito
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About the sculpture
This statuette of the Virgin and Child, made in France probably about 1850-70, is made in imitation of a French work of the 13th century, such as the Saint-Chapelle Virgin in the Louvre and the Saint-Denis Virgin in Cincinatti
The production of ivories in historicizing styles in the 19th century flourished in a number of centres, including Cologne, Milan, Toulouse and Cordoba. Although not always made to deceive, unscrupulous dealers often sold them as genuine objects to their clients.
The simpering sweetness of the Virgin's face, the detached relationship of the two figures, the unmedieval fall of the cloth between the Christ-Child and the Virgin's arm and the back of the Virgin's veil all betray quite clearly its later origins.
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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.
Victoria and Albert Museum
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- A.565-1910
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- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · acquisita 10 giorni fa
- Immagine: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
