Figure on an Angel
unknown folk sculptor
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-1713
- Author
- unknown folk sculptor
- Name
- Figure on an Angel
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Country
- Ukraine
- Technique
- carving polychrome
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 76 x 37
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture
- Genre
- religious
- Plot
- Angel
- Provenance
- Khorobriv village, Ternopil region
Information about author
Object description
A small sculpture of an angel with flat conical wings and hands folded in prayer is carved not strictly from the front but in a barely noticeable head turn. The folk master has created a bright figure with a pensive face and symbolic wings, relying on the vision of the image drawn by his imagination without having a developed iconographic scheme. The angel's face, with small, close-set eyes, clear arcs of dark eyebrows, a straight, wedge-shaped nose and slightly protruding cheekbones, is decidedly generalised. Schematically elaborated curls surround the head. The squat figure of the angel is dressed in a dark-coloured robe, modelled with long engraved straight and curved lines that give the sculpture its three-dimensional appearance. The use of polychrome enhances the artistic interpretation and naive realism of the work.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
