Castilian school; XVI century.

Castilian School; XVI century.
"Virgin and Child".
Carved and polychrome wood.
Presents faults.
Measurements: 42 x 17 x 11 cm.
Mary stands, standing on a pedestal, holding the Child Jesus in her arms. She wears a long tunic and mantle whose arrangement generates an interesting play of folds, which adds volume to the figure. The Child, on the other hand, is a childlike figure with rounded cheeks and a spontaneous gesture.
Spain is, at the beginning of the 16th century, the European nation best prepared to receive the new humanist concepts of life and art due to its spiritual, political and economic conditions, although from the point of view of plastic forms, its adaptation of those introduced by Italy was slower due to the need to learn the new techniques and to change the taste of the clientele. Sculpture reflects perhaps better than other artistic fields this eagerness to return to the classical Greco-Roman world that exalts in its nudes the individuality of man, creating a new style whose vitality surpasses mere copying.