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Virgin and Child
c. 1315–20
Overall: 75.9 x 28 cm (29 7/8 x 11 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1974.14
Location: 106B Romanesque & Gothic Sculpture
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The CMA has a rare example of a similar woman’s belt (1930.742).Description
This graceful Virgin and child is a beautiful example from a large number of such figures produced in Lorraine, in eastern France, during the early 1300s. Lorraine at the time had a well-established artistic tradition and was under the rule of the Counts of Bar with established cultural links to both Flanders and England. Many of the surviving Lorraine Virgins share common characteristics consistent with this example--the swaying posture, with the weight of the Virgin placed on the left foot; and an open mantle with an exposed belted gown, the girdle itself trailing to the ground and ornamented with rosettes. Such standing figures were likely made for use in parish churches, cathedrals, aristocratic oratories, and monastic chapels, and attest to the intense veneration rendered to the Virgin during the period.- (Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York).
- Wixom, William D. “A Gothic Madonna from Lorraine.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 343–349. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 343-349 www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 59 archive.orgDe Winter, Patrick M. “Visions of the Apocalypse in Medieval England and France.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 10 (December 1983): 396–417. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 414-415, fig. 32 www.jstor.org
- Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).
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