Virgin and Child Enthroned
Manner of Christoph Angermair German
The elongated proportions of this statuette and the whorls of the Christ Child’s coiffure reveal a debt to the Mannerist style brought to Germany from Italy by the Munich court sculptors Hubert Gerhard and Hans Reichl. Although they both worked primarily in bronze, they influenced Angermair, a court sculptor to Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria, who specialized in small-scale ivory carvings for wealthy princes and merchants. Natural philosophy connected material to the divine, so ivory statuettes of religious figures were an appropriate addition to collectors’ Kunstkammern.
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