I to think that sansevero is what you are looking for.
Madonna with body of jesus marble veil.
Peter s basilica vatican city it is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist.
The virgin suckling the infant christ the virgo lactans or maria lactans is the most ancient type of virgin and child.
27 51 for generations only the high priest had been permitted to pass through the veil and enter the symbolic presence of god.
But he spake of the temple of his body john 2 19 21 at jesus death the veil in the temple s most sacred chamber the holy of holies was rent in twain from the top to the bottom matt.
Saw this on sammatha brown so maybe there is a reclining modonna too.
In reality the veiled christ is entirely hewn in marble from a single block of stone as scrupulous study and documents dating from the time of the statue show.
We ll be there on september 19 to see.
They have the dead christ with a thin veil over his body a man wrapped in a net and a standing modonna.
The veiled virgin is a carrara marble statue carved in rome by italian sculptor giovanni strazza 1818 1875 depicting the bust of a veiled virgin mary the exact date of the statue s completion is unknown but it was probably in the early 1850s.
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When art historian giorgio vasari saw the statue in 1550 he wrote in his book about the lives of artists.
Sanmartino paid little heed to the previous scale model made by the venetian sculptor.
1498 1499 is a work of renaissance sculpture by michelangelo buonarroti housed in st.
Citation needed the veil gives the appearance of being translucent but in fact is carved of marble the technique is similar to giuseppe.
The madonna breast feeds jesus.
Veiled christ s production was originally assigned to the sculptor antonio corradini who specialized in veiled statues however corradini died a short time later having produced only a terracotta bozzetto today displayed at the museo nazionale di san martino the job thus passed to giuseppe sanmartino who was charged with producing a marble statue sculpted with the greatest realism.
Both in modesty and in the veiled christ the original stylistic message is in the veil but sanmartino s late baroque feeling and sentiment permeate the shroud with a movement and a meaning far removed from corradini s rules the modern sensitivity of the artist sculpts and divests the lifeless body of.
Mar 10 2013 explore oph3lia s board veiled sculptures on pinterest.
The statue was commissioned for the french cardinal jean de bilhères who was a representative in rome the sculpture in carrara marble was made for the.
The legend of the veil is slow to die however.
