Figure of an Angel
unknown folk sculptor
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-944
- Author
- unknown folk sculptor
- Name
- Figure of an Angel
- Date of creation
- 19th c.
- Country
- Ukraine
- Technique
- carving polychromy
- Material
- wood gilt
- Dimensions
- 52 x 27.5 x 10 cm (height x width x depth)
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture
- Genre
- religious
- Plot
- Angel
- Provenance
- Yasenytsia-Zamkova village, Starosambir district, Lviv region
Information about author
Object description
Most of the works of folk plastics were sculptural images of angels. They were of different sizes and had various functions: they decorated iconostasis and side altars and served as candlesticks. The sculpture of the angel from Yasenytsia-Zamkova village served as a candlestick, judging by the gesture of the right hand stretched aside and clenched fingers, that form a place for a candle. The static, slightly squat figure is dressed in a long tunic, on which the folk master marked with a chisel straight rows of vertical lines, which imitate folds. The angel's face is reproduced in a primitive manner: a low forehead with smooth arches of eyebrows, a wedge-shaped nose, wide lips outlined with bright red paint, and plump pink cheeks. The rectangular face of the figure is framed by dark wavy hair. A palm branch is clamped in his left hand.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
