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Madonna with Child, Genoese area, 18th century
Polychrome terracotta; 42x25x18
This beautiful terracotta Madonna is probably a sketch for a polychrome marble or wood sculpture.
Bibl. AAVV, Sculpture in Genoa and Liguria from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century, Fratelli Pagano Editori, Genoa, 1989, pp.87-295.
This beautiful terracotta Madonna is probably a sketch for a polychrome marble or wood sculpture.
It could also be a definitive work but, usually, terracotta was used by artists to model realistic sketches to propose to the client.
However, it presents itself as a complete work both in terms of modelling and polychromy; even the child's fluttering drapery has been gilded with leaf.
The two figures are presented standing and in opposition. Both are walking towards the observer balanced on the back of a dragon with its jaws wide open, a symbol of tamed and subjugated evil.
The figures are wrapped in drapes moved by the mystical wind and are an expression of a baroque taste easily from the Genoese area.
The Genoese sculptors to whom we can refer stylistically are, in our opinion, Anton Maria Marigliano (Genoa, 1664-1739) and Francesco Maria Schiaffino, (Genoa, 1688-1763) whose marvelous Madonnas are so stylistically similar to ours.
We thank Prof. Andrea Bacchi for his kind verbal report.
Bibl. AAVV, Sculpture in Genoa and Liguria from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century, Fratelli Pagano Editori, Genoa, 1989, pp.87-295.
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