La Mare de Déu de l\'antic retaule major de Santa Maria de Tamarit de Llitera, obra de Juan Dusi (1504): recuperació de dos fragments

This article describes two fragments of the alabaster virgin that presided over the centre altarpiece of the church of Saint Mary in Tamarite in 1504, having been commissioned by the legal representatives of the town of Tamarite and the sculptor Juan Dusi, native of Bruges and resident of Zaragoza. The piece was made just after the completion of the altarpiece, made with panels painted by the Zaragoza-born painters Miguel and Juan Ximénez between 1500 and 1503, and it continued to preside over the presbytery even when the Gothic furnishings were replaced by a new altarpiece, in this case made by the sculptor Juan de Loscertales in around 1682. The sculpture remained in this location until 1936, when material goods of the parish church were destroyed in the context of the Spanish Civil War. Since then, it was believed that the work was missing, hence the relevance of the recently recovered fragments.