Dans le goût de Cimabue

L'oeuvre est un pastiche à la manière des oeuvres du XIIIe. Le volet gauche et le volet droit et la partie supérieure se rabattent pour former un retable portatif. On constate de nombreux manques de pierreries sur les pourtours, nombreuses usures sur les volets et la partie centrale laissant apparaître des mastiques blancs et la préparation blanche (le visage de la vierge n'est pas peint et est donc blanc). Nombreux manques sur les volets et sur le fond doré. The work is a pastiche made in the manner of the XIIth century painters. The left and right wings and the upper part can be closed to be turned into a portable altar. We see few losses of stones on the edges. We see the white preparation on the losses and on the face of the Virgin which has not been painted. Many losses on the wings and in the gilted background.
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