VIRGIN MARY (TO DRESS UP). WOOD, METAL. SPANISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY.

Virgin to dress. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century. Has faults (hand, etc.). Sculpture made of polychrome wood that shows a woman, with the head, neck and hands carved and polychromed in detail, a sketched dress and arms in exposed wood. Iconographically, it is surely a Virgin Mary, made in this way because it was designed to be dressed and adorned with hairpieces (hence the work on the skull area). It is necessary to highlight the folds on the front, not common in this type of work, resembling clothing. Features a closed royal crown. Dress carvings 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: 44x28x86 cms