Lot n° 130
Estimation :
1200 - 1800
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 1 300EUR
En partie du XVe siècle, retaillée aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles :
SEATED VIRGIN WITH CHILD, also known as Virgin in Majesty.
Wooden fort-relief with traces of polychromy, hollow back.
H. 108 cm.
Damage and missing parts, the Child Jesus and the Virgin's right hand were added later, the upper parts of the figures were restored and cut back in the modern period, the reinforcement on the right of the Virgin was added later, the polychromy was stripped.
This Virgin and Child seated in a frontal position derives from an iconographic type of
This Virgin and Child seated in a frontal position derives from an iconographic type of Madonna in Majesty inaugurated in the middle of the 12th century in Chartres Cathedral. Also known as Sedes Majestae, or "throne of wisdom", this type of seated Virgin and Child responds to the message of the Romanesque period spread in the litanies of the Virgin, considering the body of the Virgin "as a throne on which sits the Wisdom of the Father". The image symbolizes both the mystery of the Incarnation and the essential role of the Virgin in the history of Salvation. This iconographic formula was very successful throughout France and in Catalonia from the following century. Although rivalled by the representation of the Virgin and Child standing, this highly successful iconography continued to spread in the advanced Gothic period, with many variations: here the Child Jesus is represented standing on his mother's lap.
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