UNKNOWN MASTER, French
(active 1150-1200 in Auvergne)

Virgin and Child

1150-1200
Oak with polychromy, height 79 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This sculpture of the enthroned Virgin probably served as an object of devotion on an altar. It has an abstract, formal nature with its rigid frontal poses, commanding facial expressions, and the calligraphic patterning of the crisply chiseled drapery folds.




© Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Krén and Daniel Marx.