Follower of MARCELLUS COFFERMANS (Antwerp, approx. 1520-1575). "Virgin with the Child". Oil on panel. Hemmed.

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  Follower of MARCELLUS COFFERMANS (Antwerp, approx. 1520-1575). "Virgin with the Child". Oil on panel. Hemmed. Measures: 21 x 13.5 cm; 28 x 18.5 cm (frame). Image of devotional character, in which the artist presents the Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus in her arms. The attention is concentrated exclusively on the two characters, who are located in the center of the composition. The mother and child are frontal to the viewer, and the Virgin is standing, leaning on a crescent moon, a characteristic that is usually common in the invocation of the Virgin as Immaculate. However, in this case she holds the child in her arms, establishing a visual communication between them. Since the end of the Middle Ages artists insisted on representing, in an increasingly intense way, the bond of affection that united Christ with his Mother and the close relationship between them, this was encouraged in the Renaissance and, naturally, in the Baroque period, when the exacerbation of emotions characterizes much of the artistic production. Marcellus Coffermans was a Flemish Renaissance painter known, above all, for his religious works and his works inspired by the works of other masters. He is known to have been active in Antwerp between 1549, when he began his apprenticeship, and 1575, with his own workshop after passing his master's examination in 1554, the year he joined the city's Confraternity of St. Luke. Stylistically, he is considered to come from Bruges because of his similarity to works by Ambrosius Benson, Gerard David and Hans Memling, and according to the Museo del Prado, he stands out for his style "for the light and passiajistic treatment, the folding of the clothes and the firmness of the line when drawing; he idealizes the feminine faces, with oval shape and half-closed eyes. He uses enameled colors and bluish tones. Most of his paintings are very small and very meticulously executed. "Of an archaizing character inspired by the Flemish masters of the 15th and early 16th century, often using engravings by Dürer and Martin Schongauer as models. At present, his paintings are kept in important institutions such as the Museo de Bellas Artes in Seville, the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales in Madrid, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Museo de Villadiego in Burgos, the Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid, etc.
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