Description
This is a lovely statue of Mother Mary, with her child Jesus. The Madonna and Child type are very prevalent in Christian iconography, divided into many traditional subtypes especially in Eastern Orthodox iconography.
This depiction was introduced during the Italian Renaissance Period. According to a tradition recorded in the 8th century, Marian iconography goes back to a portrait drawn from life by Luke the Evangelist, with a number of icons (such as the Panagia Portaitissa) claimed to either represent this original icon or to be a direct copy of it. In the Western tradition, depictions of the Madonna were greatly diversified by Renaissance masters such as Duccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, Caravaggio and Rubens (and further by certain modernists, such as Salvador Dalí and Henry Moore) while Eastern Orthodox iconography adheres more closely to the inherited traditional types.
(Height: ~26 cm)
(Material: Clay, Porcelain, Ceramic Composite)
(Finish: Bronze Layer)
