Virgin

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Image of the Virgin with the Child, carved in wood and with important rests of original polychromy. The composition responds to the type ofSedes Sapientiae,or Seat of Wisdom, with the Virgin sat with the Child in her skirt, practically , in the middle, in a totally frontal composition. Both figures are crowned while the back of the seat of honour has polychromy of a possible heraldic sense.

Sculpture

c. 1200

72.3 x 26.2 x 22 cm

Plandiura Collection, purchased 1932

Inventory number: 

003923-000

Century: 12th
Subject: Religion
Wood carving with tempera polychrome remains
Provenance unknown
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Anònim - Mare de Déu - Cap a 1200