Virgin and Child in alabaster

This alabaster sculpture, attributed to Nino Pisano (c. 315-1368) and associated with the cult of the Madonna of Trapani, is housed in a marble inlaid chapel in the Annonziata church. Its fame has spanned the centuries, and it is still a popular pilgrimage site today.
Numerous copies of this work are known.
This one, of relatively large size, is fairly close to the original, and follows on from the one in the Louvre (RF 1444), formerly given to Domenico Gagini's workshop.
The elegance of the drapery, the intensity of the visual exchange between Mother and Son, the beatitude of their faces cannot fail to move us.

Sicily
XVII century