Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Paintings 48 Grams silver weight

48 Grams silver weight

mark & period

Silver Weight 118 Grams

To the background are three sailing ships

Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Paintings 48 Grams silver weightAn 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,