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Monday, December 9, 2013

Blessed Feast of Mary Immaculate in ASIA!

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, 18th centuryHispano-PhilippineIvory, partly polychromed and gilded, with glass eyes and silver halo  Chinese ivory carvers in the Philippines and on the mainland as well  produced numerous religious figures for export to Spain and the Americas  via the Manila Galleon route. Although conforming to the iconography of  the Catholic church (such as the pose of this Virgin), their Asian  origin is usually unmistakable in their physiognomies as well as the  style of their drapery.Source:  Virgin  of the Immaculate Conception [Hispano-Philippine] (64.164.243) |  Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, 18th century
Hispano-Philippine
Ivory, partly polychromed and gilded, with glass eyes and silver halo


FROM: http://asianhistory.tumblr.com/post/10117147688/virgin-of-the-immaculate-conception-18th-century