Angel Without Wings
unknown folk sculptor
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-971
- Author
- unknown folk sculptor
- Name
- Angel Without Wings
- Date of creation
- 20th c.
- Country
- Ukraine
- Technique
- carving polychrome
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions (height x width x depth, cm)
- 44 x 14 x 19.5
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture
- Genre
- religious
- Plot
- Angel
- Provenance
- Sydorivka village, Stryi district, Lviv region
Information about author
Object description
Angels are the most numerous group of wooden sculptures that reveal the imagination of craftsmen and their vision of this image. Angels were carved in various forms, standing, sitting, and kneeling with folded hands in prayer. A craftsman from the village of Sydorivka carved an angel in the shape of a young boy. The front sculpture shows a figure with a somewhat stern expression. The young man's elongated face with small, open eyes looks far away. The sharp diagonal folds of the loincloth cross the soft contours of the body. The damage to the sculpture makes it difficult to imagine the artist's original intention. In the image of an angel, the folk artist embodied his vision of the aesthetic ideals of beauty characteristic of his time and environment.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
