Virgin and Child
Nearly life-size, this masterpiece of Burgundian carving comes from a chapel in the cathedral of Besançon. The Virgin and Child, with their thick drapery, weighty bodies, and lack of ornament, reflect the 15th-century movement away from the Gothic ideal of the elegant, slende...
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40829
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sculpture
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normalized
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Cathedral of Besançon; Mr. Champy, Chateau Saint-Apollinaire [near Dijon], 1906, by purchase; Mr. Décailly, Chateau Saint-Apollinaire, 1932, by inheritance; Simon Le Grand, Amsterdam, 1938, by purchase; Raphael Stora, Paris and New York, ca. 1940, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1959, by purchase.
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en
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3
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import
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Gothic
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_27.560_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_27.560_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| imageCount | 3 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.560 |
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