Ivory Sculpture of Mary
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Female figure dressed in a tunic and cloak that covers her head, falls from the shoulders and crossed in front. All clothing is decorated with floral motifs.
It is a Spanish-Filipino ivory from the seventeenth century that represents the Virgin. It is part of the typical composition of the Holy Family of travel in which the Virgin and Saint Joseph take the Child by the hand. It is paired with the San José CE1806.
One of the main routes for the penetration of Christian worship in the East was the visual arts. It was about making the new religion reach local societies through the evangelizing function of Dominican, Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries through cult images, identifying the new Christian iconographies with the eastern physiognomic types.
Iconography Virgin mary
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