École Espagnole (XIX) - Madonna in Cathedra

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- This singular canvas from the dawns of the early 19th century presents itself to us as a visual enigma, a work where Marian devotion slips 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, but here imbued with an unusual gravity. She does not appear on a celestial throne of clouds and angels, but seated on a lectern of an austerity almost geometric, a structure of dark wood and rigid lines that seems more fit for the furniture of a lodge or an alchemist’s studio than for a Christian altar.

The most unsettling element of the composition is the perfect circumference within 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 half tones, where the Virgin is no longer only the Mother of God, but the incarnation 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 a mystical softness, contrasts with the deep shadows that devour the angles of the room, creating a dialogue between what is 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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