Our Salvator Mundi is dressed in red and gold. The movements of her clothing give life to the sculpture.
Her gaze is intense thanks to her sulphide eyes and raised eyelashes.
18th century
Spain
Blessing Christ entourage of Pedro de Mena
Carved wood, polychrome stucco, sulphide eyes
17th century Spanish school
Our wooden sculpture of Saint Lucia is dressed in green, red with gold threads. Her eyes are blue to represent the purity of her soul and the period when she was blind. Around his neck is a cross.
18th century
Italy
Sculpture representing a young woman going to the bath.
She delicately holds a basket of flowers in her right hand.
Late 18th century.
France
In 1561, Catherine de Medici commissioned Germain Pilon to create an element of the funerary monument which was to be used to house the heart of her late husband, King Henry II. This monument was erected in the church of the Parisian convent of the Célestins.
19th century
France
The lead casts of the Child Jesus are very rare objects, they are normally found in wood.
Spain,
XVIIth Century
Spanish capipote carrying the Christ child.
Polychrome carved wood, face covered with a thin layer of polychrome stucco.
Paperweight eyes
Ancient Clothing
Spain XIX
This capipote which represents the Salvator Mundi is very atypical in its proportions.
However, they were not intended to be unveiled, the capipotes being dressed.
Polychrome wood and stucco
Eyes in sulphide
Spain 19th century
Some gaps
The Virgin holds in her right hand a bunch of grapes which symbolizes the blood of Christ and in the other hand the child Christ.
XVIII century, Italy
Capipote in carved wood and painted face.
These Virgins were used during processions, or in churches, chapels, oratories. They could also illustrate passages from the Bible for the often illiterate faithful and make the Holy Scriptures more understandable. They were dressed in a more or less luxurious way depending on the city, the village or the individual who owned them.
End of 18th century, beginning of 19th century
France.