Such Annunciation pairs would perhaps have flanked the entrance to the high-altar area of a church or the altar itself.
While they might also have been set into tabernacles, the carving completely in the round suggests a position in which viewers could move around them.
место:
Пиза: церковь св. Екатерины
Pisa: church of St Catherine
композиция:
Архангел Гавриил
Archangel Gabriel
Мария
Maria
оформление:
14 в.
Мрамор. Резьба.
Carving on marble.
Статуи парные.
Pair of statues.
предмет с изображением:
копия
copy
история:
Acquired 1950 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift 1961 to NGA.
Carbon-14 tests on samples of the wood have indicated that each piece was carved from a tree cut down at least six hundred years ago.
Their surfaces were once completely polychromed, and traces of the colors remain -- red, blue, green, and a red-and-gilt pattern on the borders of the mantles.
