Who carved this statue?
'The Veiled Virgin' is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875), depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s.
The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but in fact is carved of marble. The technique is similar to Giuseppe Sanmartino's 1753 statue 'Veiled Christ' in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples.
The statue was transported to Newfoundland in 1856, as recorded on December 4 in the diary of Bishop John Thomas Mullock.
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Paul Greenslade
Wow! Such skill! One slip with the tools and…
Louella Wilson
David Hovis, not necessarily so. It was not da Vinci (no capital D!). And I thought the style was Italian. So took a guess on the other two Italian names.