Virgin with child

This sculpture produced in Flanders from 1475 to 1530 is recognizable due to its stereotypic form: round face, heavy eyelids and small eyes, abundant and clean curls. Clothing falls heavily into angled folds. One of the main centers for the production of these sculptures was the City of Mechelen, where “dolls” were produced, small sculptures out of walnut, oak or poplar, rich polychrome sculptures used for home altars. These models even reached America and became the focus of new cults, including Our Lady of the Conquest, in Puebla. Its survival is notable, since the successive waves of protestant iconoclasts destroyed a great number of them.