Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Decorative Arts This enabled him to study

This enabled him to study at the French Academy in Rome

a tall case clock in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

The door encloses two shelves

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Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Decorative Arts This enabled him to studyAn important Italian Renaissance carved walnut & polychrome statue of The Madonna, Siena, by Lorenzo di Pietro (1420 1480) also known as Vecchietta, the statue circa 1460. This very beautiful Sienese carved Virgin from the late 1400s was a devotional object, it depicts the Virgin Mary kneeling in adoration. The figure is deftly and sensitively carved from limewood and gesso and is archetypical of the Sienese school of carving; depicting a graceful,