École Espagnole (XIX) - Madonna in Cathedra

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- This singular canvas from the early 19th century presents itself to us as a visual enigma, a work where Marian devotion slides into the realms of the Hermetic. The figure of the Virgin, whose anatomy and chromatic delicacy betray a deep debt to Correggio’s brush, appears with that ethereal sfumato and that languid grace that characterized the master of Parma, yet here imbued with an unusual gravity. She does not appear on a celestial throne of clouds and angels, but seated in a lectern-like chair of almost geometric austerity, a structure of dark wood and rigid lines that seems more to belong to the furniture of a lodge or an alchemist’s studio than to a Christian altar.

The most unsettling element of the composition is the perfect circle in which the lectern is inscribed, a circle that frames the sacred figure not as a traditional halo, but as a cosmic diagram. This sacred geometry suggests an esotericism in muted tones, where the Virgin is no longer only the Mother of God, but the embodiment of Sophia or the Prima Materia, guarded by a circular boundary that symbolizes the unity of the universe and the perfection of hidden knowledge. The light, which bathes the Child’s face with mystical softness, contrasts with the deep shadows that devour the room’s corners, creating a dialogue between the revealed and the arcane.

- Image dimensions without frame: 64 x 64 cm / 81 x 80.5 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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