Virgin with Child enthroned. Boxwood, bronze and
carved rock crystal. XIX century. On an upholstered base, another second base has
been placed in bronze, the metal in which the throne is
made. It stands on four low columns with smooth
shafts with capitals decorated with scrolls and
simplified vegetal forms, decorative elements that are
repeated at the waist, combined with oval blue beads;
the back, square and openwork with highly schematic
scrolls, is topped by four carved rock crystal pearls.
The Virgin Mary is seated on it, with a crown that
repeats the decorative elements of the throne, dressed
in a tunic and mantle and with a book in her hand. The
Child Jesus, on his lap, also directs his gaze forward,
while blessing with his right hand.
The iconography comes, as usual, from Byzantine
models: among the Theotokos types, the Panakranta
or Panacranta is in which Mary appears seated on a
throne, with the Child on her lap and both facing the
viewer, showing what was agreed upon. at the IV
Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451 AD). These
were arriving in Europe already in the Romanesque,
developing the iconography of the West. This work
can be compared with the Italo-Byzantine icon from
the thirteenth century preserved in the National Gallery
of Art in Washington DC (United States), or the
carving of the "Virgin of the Battles" of the Monastery
of San Pedro de Arlanza, made around 1225-1235,
and preserved in the Museum of Burgos, or the
Romanesque of the mid-seventeenth century today in
the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires (Argentina),
although there are a large number of examples.
However, details such as the decoration of the
capitals, the anatomy shown by the two figures, the
scrolls of the throne and the crown, the folds of the
cloths, a certain air in the faces despite their
schematization, the symmetry present in various
points of the work, etc., show the belonging of the
carving to a date closer to the present day.
Specifically, the style known as Neo-Gothic: it was
inspired by works from the 13th to 15th-16th centuries
and was opposed to the preceding Neoclassical; It
was born in England around the middle of the 18th
century, and spread across continental Europe in the
19th century."
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Size: 10x10x24 cm aprox.
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