{"id":3031,"date":"2019-09-12T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/the-madonna-with-the-child-4\/"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:38:02","slug":"the-madonna-with-the-child-4","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/the-madonna-with-the-child-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madonna with the Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">16TH CENTURY MAESTRO FROM THE SOUTHERN ITALY<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Madonna with the Child<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">sculpted, painted and partially gilded wood, cm 97 height<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">According to an ancient iconography, the Virgin holding the Child assumes in this sculpture an imperial dignity. This aspect is further expressed by the ancient noble crown wreathing the head of the Mother of God and by the imperial globe supported by the \u201cCaput Mundi\u201d Child, which used to be a globus cruciger (Latin for \u201ccross-bearing orb\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">However, in this courtly representation there are elements that are rather realistic and almost popular, both in the physiognomy of the Madonna and in the details of the sleeve with buttons partly hidden by the voluminous draping and of the shoewear showing the feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">These elements, the iconographic persistence and the stylistic characteristics place the execution of this work in Southern Italy, most likely during the sixteenth century, despite reminiscences of earlier periods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1271,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[49],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/3031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}