Virgin and Child (Morgan Madonna)
a. How does this work express innovation?
b. How does the artist use the technique?
c. How does the work express Romanesque style?
d. What is the purpose of this work?
Answers will vary.
a. The statue is large and is free-standing. The innovation is its presence, the suspicion of large sculpture in-the-round was still prevalent (could have been construed as an idol).
b. The sculptor has created an impressive work modeled on the Byzantine Theotokos. This artist has softened the Virgin's face and has made the presentation less remote than its Byzantine counterpart.
c. The sculptor has presented the figure as the Romanesque version of the Throne of Wisdom; she is rigidly upright and frontal.
d. It was a devotional image.
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