Spanish school of the 13th-14th centuries. "Virgin... Lot 10

Spanish school of the 13th-14th centuries. "Virgin and Child". Polychrome wood. It presents faults in the polychromy and in the carving. It has old damage caused by xylophages. Measurements: 65 x 29 x 17 cm. In this Marian representation, the Virgin is presented to us as a young woman with rounded and volumetric features, crowned and seated as the throne of her son Jesus and, therefore, of the Christian religion. She has lost her right hand, with which she may have been holding a fruit. The Child, slightly displaced from the centre and standing on one of his mother's knees. The fact that he is slightly displaced to the right, in a more natural position, indicates a certain formal advance with respect to the earlier Romanesque style. In the work there is no affective relationship between Mary and Jesus, but rather they turn their backs to each other and look straight ahead, at the viewer. The Virgin is presented in these "Sedes Sapientiae" dressed in tunic and cloak, with a soft, undulating folding work, a way of carving the folds that lasted for a century: from the mid-14th to the mid-15th century. The Virgin as the throne of God was the most abundant iconography in free-standing Romanesque sculpture, and in the Gothic period it was adapted to the new style based on the old formulas of representation. In fact, it would also be a deeply rooted model in the Gothic style.