VIRGIN MARY (TO DRESS UP). WOOD, GLASS, METAL. SPANISH SCHOOL, 16TH CENTURY.

Virgin to dress. Carved and polychrome wood, glass, metal. Spanish school, 16th century. It has faults. Virgin Mary made of carved and polychrome wood with hairpieces in the eyes and articulated arms of the type designed to be dressed (and with more hairpieces most likely), hence the simple wooden frame in the lower part of the body, the lack of work in the arms (the hands are carved and polychrome), the absence of feet and legs, the shape of the head, etc. The metal rod on the head is designed to hold a crown, which was normally made of bronze, silver, gilded silver... As for clothing carvings, these were very common during the Spanish Baroque, and there may be cases of works in which the unseen part was barely roughed out and others in which everything is carved, with many intermediate points (see the present case). . Remember the San Antonio Abad by Benito Silveira made in the second half of the 18th century that is in the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, a San Francisco de Paula from the 18th century in the Museo del Carmen de Maipú (Santiago de Chile), etc.

· Size: 60x45x145 cms.