Angel
unknown folk sculptor
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-1836
- Author
- unknown folk sculptor
- Name
- Angel
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Country
- Ukraine
- Technique
- carving polychrome
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions (height x width x depth, cm)
- 49.1 x 21.4 x 14.2
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture
- Genre
- religious
- Plot
- Angel
- Provenance
- Ozerna village, Zboriv district, Ternopil 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. A folk sculptor from the Ternopil region carved an angel in the shape of a young girl kneeling with her hands folded in prayer. The elongated oval of her lovely face is surrounded by long strands of wavy, sculpted hair, parted in the middle and falling slowly over her shoulders. The girl's face is gentle, with large almond-shaped eyes below a low forehead, a straight nose and closed lips. She is lost in thought. The angel's body is covered by a long tunic, the top and sleeves of which are decorated with shallow, rhythmically repeating grooves. The lower part of the garment is covered with graphic diagonal lines. The flat modelling of the drapery, the lowered shoulders, the disproportion of the angel's body parts, and the author's desire for anatomical realism all point to the work of a folk master.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
