CALSTER, Maarten van
(b. ca. 1574, Mechelen, d. 1628, Mechelen)

Virgin and Child

C. 1600
Stone
Magistrate's Hall, Mechelen

This sculpture is a 20th-century copy of the original wooden statue, now in the Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen. This original, in turn, is a copy of a statue by the medieval sculptor André Beauneveu. This explain why this seventeenth-century statue has a Gothic feeling to it.




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