The Virgin and Child
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Onde está «The Virgin and Child» hoje? Coleção: Museu Vitória e Alberto, Londres. Não exposta de momento. Verificado 25 de setembro de 2026.
Londres, Reino Unido
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This statuette in ivory of the Virgin and Child was made in the 19th century in Germany as a forgery in the style of the late 15th or beginning of 16th century. On acquisition the statuette was believed to be Flemish, from the end of 15th or early 16th century. It remained unpublished until 1981, when it was included in the Dürer revival exhibition in Frankfurt as a retrospective piece of the early 17th century and said to derive from a painting by Cranach in Innsbruck. Everything here though points to a nineteenth-century origin. For instance, the facture of the piece, with no obvious signs of wear or of fixing to a background, is inconsistent with a late medieval date. The figure demonstrates a mixing of sources by the nineteenth century forger.
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Three dimensional images of the Virgin and Child were ubiquitous from the 12th to the 15thh centuries, produced in a wide range of materials and sizes and testifying to the overwhelming devotion to the Virgin. Together with the Crucifixion, statues and statuettes of the Virgin and Child were the principal objects of devotion in the Christian Church, and vast numbers were made for ecclesiastical, monastic and private worship.
Museu Vitória e Alberto
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- A.19-1949
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