15th Century, Bishop

15th century

Bishop

Polychrome wood, cm alt. 70

This wooden sculpture depicts a seated bishop on the throne. The small size of the collection suggests that it should be placed inside a tabernacle or wooden ancone above an altar. The finely descriptive carving in the face and draperies rigid but softened by the curved folds between the two arms, the sitting pose that recalls the Madonnas seated on the throne and the features that express a solemn and intense expression recall the sculptures made between Marche Umbria and Abruzzo between the end of the medieval era and the Renaissance. In the XV this kind of sculpture with a religious background was very widespread in the shops of central Italy, both for individual works and for statues used to support wooden structures much more complex such as choirs, The anchors, pulpits or chandeliers of churches that could be decorated with more complex details. The back is however painted and slightly carved but mostly flat, and it is provided with a hole useful for grafting the statuette on a piece of furniture, a furniture or an architecture of larger dimensions.