Lot n° 159
Estimation :
5000 - 7000
EUR
CATALAN SCHOOL (Pyrénées Orientales), 15th century - Lot 159
CATALAN SCHOOL (Pyrénées Orientales), 15th century
Seated Virgin and Child, also known as Sedes Sapientiae
High relief in polychromed wood.
Accents, Christ's hands missing, crack at the base, later restorations to the Virgin's right hand and perhaps to Christ's feet, several layers of superimposed polychromy.
H. 61 cm
Provenance: private collection, Millau region.
This graceful, hieratic Virgin and Child seated in a frontal position derives from a type of iconographic
Virgin in Majesty inaugurated in the mid-12th century on the south portal of the west façade of Chartres
of Chartres Cathedral. Also known as Sedes Majestae, or "throne of wisdom", this type of seated Virgin and Child responds to the message of the
message of the Romanesque litanies of the Virgin Mary, which consider the Virgin's body "as a throne
a throne on which sits the Wisdom of the Father". The image symbolizes both the mystery of the Incarnation and the essential role of the Virgin Mary in the history of Salvation. This iconographic formula enjoyed widespread success in Catalonia from the following century onwards. It was a huge success, and continued to be used in the advanced Gothic period.
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