Description

This wooden work depicting the Virgin with the Child in her arms holding a golden globe, a traditional attribute of the Salvator Mundi, declines a solid and solemn compositional conception. The frontal arrangement, the posture of the Child, his rounded physiognomy as well as the peculiar hairstyle of Mary’s hair, dressed up in symmetrical undulations and the verticality of the fluted folds of the dress and cloak make the work precious for its richness and precision of the details. The sculpture, also valuable for the state of conservation of the carving and polychromy, constitutes a testimony of particular importance for the development of wooden sculpture in Tuscany, placing itself in the first decades of the seventeenth century in a cultural situation of great interest.