Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Sculpture in the original gilt frame

in the original gilt frame

From an Elizabethan country House in Ripon

An eager participant in late 1950s happenings

The present model is arguably his best known and was exhibited at the Salon in 1887 and acquired the same year by the city of Paris at the Buttes-Chaumont

The plaque is housed in the original Florentine carved & gilded frame

Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Sculpture in the original gilt frameAn important Italian Renaissance carved walnut & polychrome statue of The Madonna, Siena, by Lorenzo di Pietro (1420 1480) also known as Vecchietta, the statue circa 1460. This very beautiful Sienese carved Virgin from the late 1400s was a devotional object, it depicts the Virgin Mary kneeling in adoration. The figure is deftly and sensitively carved from limewood and gesso and is archetypical of the Sienese school of carving; depicting a graceful,