Our Lady of Valvanera, Oil on Copper. Spain, 17th century.
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...
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17th Century Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique Madrid