Relief with the fainting Virgin
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Relief with the fainting Virgin
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Published 2018-08-20T16:08:52+00:00
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Northern Netherlandish, probably Utrecht, carved relief depicting fainting Virgin. This scene was popular in later medieval art and theological literature, but as it was not mentioned in the Canonical Gospels, it became controversial, and from the 16th century was discouraged by many senior churchmen. The idea was developed in the late Middle Ages, that the Virgin Mary had fainted during the Passion of Christ, most often placed while she watched the Crucifixion of Jesus. It was based on mentions in later texts of the apocryphal gospel the Acta Pilati, which describe Mary swooning.
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| Date published | 20/08/2018 |
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| Title | Relief with the fainting Virgin |
| Date | circa 1520 |
| Dimension | 370mmx330mm |
| Accession | lot 55 |
| Period | Medieval |
| Medium | Oak |
| Credit | Sold at Sotheby's, 2018, 15,000 GBP |
| Record | http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/old-master-sculpture-works-of-art-l18231/lot.55.html |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Sotheby's |
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