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| Keywords: French - Virgin and Child - Walters 27255.jpg This wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child is typical of the Romanesque style In order to convey the idealized heavenly nature of the subject the artist gave the holy figures compact self-contained bodies covered by clinging linear drapery The statue is carved in the round allowing it to be used both as a stationary devotional object in a church and as a portable image carried in procession on religious feast days The Virgin has a hollowed-out back possibly to contain a relic Statues such as this are called Thrones of Wisdom as the Virgin Mother of God served as a throne for Christ the incarnation embodiment of Divine Wisdom between 1175 1225 Medieval wood walnut with polychrome cm 93 5 27 29 accession number 27 255 3972 At the Church of Précigné Sarthe from at least the 15th century until the early 20th century Curé Tessier Sillé-le-Guillaume until 1914 Henri Daguerre Paris Henry Walters Baltimore August 23 1927 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1927 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 place of origin Le Mans France Walters Art Museum license Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Sculptures of Madonna and Child Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
