18th-Century Miniature Oil Painting – Virgen Dolorosa

Oil on Glass — "Our Lady of Sorrows," 18th Century, Reverse Glass Painting A refined and emotionally evocative 18th-century devotional painting depicting Our Lady of Sorrows, execut...

A beautifully preserved devotional oil painting on copper plate, depicting the Virgin Mary tenderly holding the Christ Child. Executed circa 1700–1750, this 18th-century work embodie...

"MATER DOLOROSA" FOLLOWER OF TITIAN VECELLIO 17th Century MATER DOLOROSA Oil on panel cm. 66 x 52 Black and gold lacquer frame PROVENANCE Roman family CONDITION REPORT Vertical re...

Our Lady of Valvanera, oil on copper. Spain, 17th century. Height: 20 cm - Width: 14.4 cm. Certificate of Govaert, 1986. Our Lady of Valvanera The Virgin of Valvanera is a Marian devotion from the Sierra de la Demanda, in La Rioja (Spain), a community of which she is the patron saint and one of the patron saints of the autonomous communities of Spain. The current image is a carving considered to be early Romanesque, from the end of the 11th century AD or beginning of the 12th century AD. The Catholic Church commemorates the feast of the devotion on September 8. The appearance of the image is recounted in the Historia Latina, written in 1419 by Rodrigo de...

This antique stunning portrait of Madonna in Sorrow came out from a Palazzo in Florence and an absolute eye catcher. The colors and details are incredible and very typical for an Ita...

We are pleased to present this captivating religious painting of the Italian school, painted in oil on canvas in the 18th century. This wonderful painting depicting the Madonna in pr...

Roman school, late 16th-early 17th century Praying Madonna Oil on canvas, 81 x 69 cm Frame 83 x 95.5 cm A divine whiteness reverberates with vibrant luster on the maphorion of the present Virgin. The palpable iridescence that structures the thin rosaceous garment, woven with the same fresh light, produces a slight rustle when she takes her hands off. The Madonna in fact takes a prayerful pose, opening her palms to underline her fervent ecstatic intention; the white neck is rendered with perishable fullness of pigments, like the hands, perfectly alive, and the very shiny eyes. With fine shrewdness the artist of the present styles the Virgin's hair with thin white ribbons, exacerbating the purity. An evocative light falls gently on the bust, a materialized sign of divine glory. The present can be traced back to the late Mannerist climate that prevailed in the capital after the emanation of the Tridentine council (1545-1563). The late Mannerist licenses that can still be seen there, such as the intense lyricism in the stylistic code adopted by the artist, are innervated in the new basic catechetical intent, which at the end of the century produced a certain figurative rigorism. The present, however, still responds to that extraordinary Roman dynamism that raised the capital to a bulwark for the entire mannerist lesson, matched only by a second artistic center, the Florentine one. The engaging carriage of the Virgin reflects the contemporary examples of Giuseppe Valeriano (1542-1596), a Jesuit painter, returning in the Marriage of the Virgin of the Roman Church of Jesus, as well as in the Madonna of Sorrows in the Recanati Altarpiece, equal ardor. But it is in the Assumption of the Virgin painted in four hands with Scipione Pulzone...

Polychromed and Gilded Plaster Carved and Gilded Frame in the Baroque Style Hispanic World 18th-19th Century This beautiful bust figure of the Virgin Mary is carved in relief on liv...