{"id":9018,"date":"2021-03-31T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gabrielle-laroche.com\/product\/vierge-en-majeste-sedes-sapientiae-dite-trone-de-sagesse-en-bois-sculpte-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:22:35","slug":"vierge-en-majeste-sedes-sapientiae-dite-trone-de-sagesse-en-bois-sculpte-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.gabrielle-laroche.com\/en\/product\/vierge-en-majeste-sedes-sapientiae-dite-trone-de-sagesse-en-bois-sculpte-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CARVED WOOD ENTHRONED VIRGIN \u00ab\u00a0SEDES SAPIENTIAE\u00a0\u00bb \u00a0THRONE OF WISDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virgin and Child enthroned were a very popular iconographical subject during the Medieval era. Pilgrimages promoted their development while spreading models. They appear in France as well as in Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia, England, Italy, Spain\u2026<\/p>\n

In the middle of the 12th century the Virgin takes place inside churches, seated and acting as a throne for her Child Jesus. She is then called Sedes Sapientiae meaning Throne of Wisdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary is not depicted for herself, she appears only because designated as Theotokos during the council of Ephesus in 431. This council declared that Christ was born with His divine nature, henceforth Mary is the Mother of God.<\/p>\n

This Virgin and Child is seated on a throne, we can distinguish an element on the right, presenting Jesus with her left hand. The Child rests on the left knee in frontal position.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary wears a simble dress with a round neckline. Her face presents fine features, a straight nose, small mouth and is covered with a veil placed high and cast backwards.<\/p>\n

The crowned Child wears a long tunic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Child\u2019s position is not as hieratic or frontal as it was during the early 12th centuries but His face stays turned towards the devotees. From the 13th century onwards Jesus begins to seat sideways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This similarity in Jesus\u2019s face and His mother\u2019s \u2013 as in the profiles and the gaze of their looks \u2013 indicates their lineage. The mature appearance given to Jesus\u2019 face reminds us of His pre-existing nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This Virgin and Child appears to be a fine production of the early 13th century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Literature :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jacqueline Boccador, Edouard Bresset, Statuaire m\u00e9di\u00e9vale de collection,<\/em> tome I, Les clefs du temps, 1972<\/p>\n

Ilene H. Forsyth, The Throne of Wisdom\u00a0: Wood sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France<\/em>, Princeton University Press, 1972<\/p>\n

Galienne Francastel, Le droit au tr\u00f4ne, un probl\u00e8me de pr\u00e9\u00e9minence dans l\u2019art chr\u00e9tien d\u2019Occident du IVe au XIIe s,<\/em> Paris, Klincksieck, 1973<\/p>\n

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CARVED WOOD ENTHRONED VIRGIN \u00ab\u00a0SEDES SAPIENTIAE<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb \u00a0THRONE OF WISDOM<\/b><\/p>\n

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ORIGINE : CENTRAL FRANCE<\/b><\/p>\n

PERIOD :\u00a0<\/b>EARLY 13thh CENTURY<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Height : 97 cm<\/p>\n

Length : 30 cm<\/p>\n

Depth : 20 cm<\/p>\n

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Wood<\/p>\n

Hollowed back<\/p>\n

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