Size: 41 x 234 x 1.5cm. Unframed. Weight: 1.725 kg
Hand-painted devotional image in egg tempera on aged Cypress wood with 23 karat gold leaf and pastiglia decoration. (Inspired by Simone Martini, 1305, Siena, Italy)
The Madonna and Child are presented in the realm of Heaven surrounded by the Cloth of Honour that bedecks their throne. The Latin prayer embroidered in the cloth echoes a much-loved medieval chant that praises and invokes the intercession of Mary:
“Salve, radix, salve, porta, Ex qua mundo lux est orta…. “Hail O Queen of Heaven. Hai, O Lady of Angels. Hail, thou root, hail thou gate from whom unto the world a Light has arisen…”
Size: 41 x 234 x 1.5cm. Unframed. Weight: 1.725 kg
Hand-painted devotional image in egg tempera on aged Cypress wood with 23 karat gold leaf and pastiglia decoration. (Inspired by Simone Martini, 1305, Siena, Italy)
The Madonna and Child are presented in the realm of Heaven surrounded by the Cloth of Honour that bedecks their throne. The Latin prayer embroidered in the cloth echoes a much-loved medieval chant that praises and invokes the intercession of Mary:
“Salve, radix, salve, porta, Ex qua mundo lux est orta…. “Hail O Queen of Heaven. Hai, O Lady of Angels. Hail, thou root, hail thou gate from whom unto the world a Light has arisen…”
