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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in unused condition. In multiple language including English. Softcover. Polish. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> For nearly six centuries a modestly-sized painting of Madonna and Child originally from the Bohemian town of Roudnice. has been kept at the Corpus Christi Church of the Canons Regular of the Lateran in Krakow During its time at the mo- nastery it has traditionally been referred to as the Madonna ‘of the demons’. At the beginning of the 15th century it was placed in a reliquary frame (possibly replacing an earlier one). The relics placed in the order defined in the Litany of the Saints must have played an important role in performing exorcisms. Gilded silver sheets in the background the frame coat orna- mented with an elaborate exquisitely executed decoration made using a rare opus punctorium technique as well as semi- -precious gemstones set in the painting and in the frame – all these features testify to the importance of the work created in the second half of the 14th century and repainted in the 1400s. Starting from the 17th century the painting has attracted the attention of writers especially those focusing on devotional literature. It has also been a source of intrigue for both Polish and Czech art historians a fact confirmed by the plethora of publications that have been written about it. The first of these appeared at the end of the 19 century followed by a veritable procession of books and papers over the next one hundred years. A breakthrough in research on the painting came with an X-ray scan made in 1958 by Rudolf Kozlowski. The picture revealed the existence of a painting underneath with a nearly identical composition but with slight differences regarding Madonna’s and Child’s faces as compared to the upper lated. painted layer. The mon recent conservation works undertaken to 2009 lby a scam led by Prof. Malgorzata Schtonce-Gawlowska. (MP)