1 000 CZK
| 42 €
Lot 158
BLACK MADONNA
19th century
oil on cardboard
73 x 56 cm (h x w)
unsigned
Starting price
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The dark incarnations of the Madonnas are sometimes created by the age of the works, sometimes deliberately. However, it is a phenomenon that has clearly been reflected in a wide range of objects of religious veneration and is sometimes accompanied by quotations from the Bible, for example from the Song of Songs or the Vulgate. "Nigra sum sed formosa".