Gothic sculpture, XV century. Stone.

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  Gothic sculpture, XV century. Stone. Measurements: 62 x 14,5 x 11 cm. At first, the representation of the Virgin standing with the Child in her arms was placed in the mullions, forming part of the architecture, like most of the Gothic sculpture. However, it must have enjoyed great success among the faithful, so that, from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, they began to be made in small format, free-standing and in different materials, such as stone. It will be then when they begin to be not Odigitrian Virgins, but more maternal representations. At first they were made mainly in France, and from there they were exported to the rest of Europe; the models would become classics, repeated over and over again. During the Gothic period the Romanesque differentiation between sculpture inscribed in the architectural framework and free-standing sculpture is maintained, although the latter experiences a considerable increase in its repertoire, due to the fact that the Church has canonized more personages and that the mendicant orders appear, important plaintiffs of free-standing religious images. There will also be a greater typological variety, with the diversification of previous models such as the sepulcher and the appearance of new ones, as is the case of the pulpit. Regarding the iconographic theme that concerns us, the Virgin with the Child in her arms, she continues to be heir to the Byzantine Odigitria, but it is a new theme with its own entity, unlike what happened in the Romanesque.
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