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Polychrome wooden sculpture of a black Madonna and Child *, from Italy, antique eighteenth century.
This sculpture is in good condition, it is in its own juice.
A note: 2 pieces of wood can be removed on one side, a few cracks and lacks of wood, wear the polychrome old wormholes, although looking at the pictures (red arrows).
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* The Black Virgins are female effigies belonging to the iconography of the European Middle Ages. They generally include the Virgin Mary, but some of them also represent Sara black or St. Anne. They get their name from their dark color, often confined to the face and hands. Most of them are sculptures produced between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, but sometimes the Byzantine-style icons of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. We find among them many Virgin and Child. The majority of 450 to 500 identified is found in the western Mediterranean basin area of Romanesque art, with a significant concentration in the south of France where one counts 180. While museums remain, most Black Virgins are placed in churches and raise some important pilgrimages.
