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The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris.The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", [1] and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and ...
The sculpture stands at nearly 65 ft (20 m), and weighs more than 45 tons (40,800 kg). [2] The medium is enameled iron. It is located in the middle of a traffic rotary (the intersection of Losoya, Commerce, Market, and Alamo Streets) in Downtown San Antonio, an area known to international tourists as the location for the San Antonio River Walk (or Paseo del Rio), and the Alamo.
The portal of Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas. The Portal Sculpture at San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo is a façade of the mission's church in San Antonio, Texas. It is covered in saintly figures made by a Mexican-trained sculptor, Pedro Huizar, who carved the figures during 1770–1775. The ...
Giovanni di Antonio Buora (c. 1450 – 1513), 1 sculpture : Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors, Santo Stefano, Venice ; John Bushnell (c. 1630 – 1701), 1 sculpture : Sir Thomas Gresham, Old Bailey, London ; Santino Bussi (1664–1736), 2 sculptures : Decorative plasterwork (detail), Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
The Virgin and Child with Four Holy Virgins by Master of the Virgo inter Virgines; Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist (Botticelli) Virgin and Child with a Rosary by Artemisia Gentileschi; Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, a subject in Christian art showing Saint Anne with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, and her grandson Jesus
The Virgin of the pillar or Notre-Dame de Paris is a title of the Blessed Virgin that is associated with a near life-size stone statue, 1.8 metres tall, of the Virgin and Child created in the early 14th century. The statue was transferred to Notre-Dame in 1818, it was first placed in the over mantal of the portal of the Virgin to replace the ...
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It is a rare English example of this type, similar contemporary statuettes are more common in French art. Yet it is of the highest quality; the art historian William Wixom wrote that "the face is exquisitely rendered, the slight twist of the figure is subtle and eloquent, as the Virgin turns to the Child, and the deep drapery folds, some paper ...