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Scultura lignea di Madonna col Bambino Montalcino
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Artist: Angelo di Nalduccio
Year: Seconda metà del Trecento
Current location: Museo Civico e Diocesano Riuniti
Original location: Santa Maria delle Grazie
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION
This Madonna and Child comes from the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Montalcino, where it remained until 1972, when for safety reasons it was transferred to the Hospital of Santa Maria della Croce, before finally being placed in the local Civic and Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, where it can still be admired today.
The sculpture is not in perfect condition; in addition to the overall deterioration of the painted surface, the Madonna's hands and the stone inserts that adorned her rich robe have been lost. As Alessandro Bagnoli suggested during the sculpture's unveiling, the technical and stylistic similarities linking our Madonna and Child to the Announcing Angel held in the same museum—a work signed by a master named "Angelo," later identified as Angelo di Nalduccio—allow us to link these figures under the same name, confirming a similar chronological definition at the end of the third quarter of the 14th century.
Stylistically, Angelo di Nalduccio's works are characterized by a synthetic modeling that tends toward geometric forms, as in the case of our Madonna, whose structure appears frozen in a vague pose.
Similar considerations also apply to the depiction of the Baby Jesus. For the latter in particular, having been carved from a separate piece of wood from the Madonna's body, a separate use for specific liturgical functions cannot be ruled out.
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