Carved holy sculpture

Carved holy sculpture
18th century, wood carved, stuccoed, polychrome painted and gilded, fully carved depiction of St. Gregory the Great, one of the most important popes and youngest of the four great latin church fathers of late antiquity, he is considered to be the patron saint of ecclesiastical education, of scholars, teachers, pupils and students, in liturgical garb, with tiara and book, traces of age, minor loss of substance, h 73 cm.