Enthroned Virgin and Child at The Cloisters
This work of art is as charming as they come. The delinquencies in this piece are by a very well trained master of the 1300's and it's considered to be one of the great masterpieces in the museum.
Long hidden in private collections, this ivory sculpture is one of the great masterpieces on view at The Cloisters. It belongs to a larger series of European thirteenth- and fourteenth-century, generally small-scale, precious ivory statuettes of the Virgin and Child in seated and standing postures. Most of the series is French, and certainly from the Île-de-France if not from the preeminent center, Paris. All of these statuettes—the rare English examples and the numerous French works—are devotional in nature and date from the height of popularity of the cult of the Virgin. - The MET
Eric Buechel Fine Art/ The Bee Hive Atelier
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Pleasant Hill Tennessee 38578
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