Mary in Western Art

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Hudson Hills, 2005 - 234 trang
This title is published in association with the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center. No one can doubt Mary's importance in the spiritual history of Europe: every European city has at least one grand church dedicated to her, and, from the fifth century to the present, Christian thinkers have devoted considerable space to her in their reflections. In the visual arts, perhaps not even Christ has had so eminent a role as she. In certain periods, images of the Mother indeed outstrip those of her Son both in quantity and in creative originality. The historical identity of Europe's peoples - their self-image across time - in fact seems linked to the ways in which they have venerated, imagined, and depicted Mary. Timothy Verdon organizes the rich, visual material according to several methodological principles, using a thematic approach in the first chapter, a biographical one in the second, and in the third offering a concrete historical example: Mary as a subject in Florentine art. Written from the viewpoint of religious faith, Verdon makes allowance for the fact that many readers may lack direct experience of that individual relationship with Mary, which determined how she was represented in art. Verdon's text seeks to clarify the logical and emotional framework within which that relationship made sense without presuming to "explain" individual paintings or sculptures. True works of art, after all, are never mere textual illustrations. 250 colour illustrations
 

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Ecce ancilla Domini
9
The Mother the Virgin the Queen
11
Mary in Christian Art Imagination and Life
19
Mary as Figure
30
Sponsa Christi and Figure of the Church
34
Mary Figure of Spiritual Desire
40
Door Ark and Womb
44
Mater Misericordiae
47
Mary as Mother and Educator
124
From Cana to the Foot of the Cross
144
Pentecost Dormitio Assumption Coronation and Intercession
168
Pray for us O Holy Mother of
177
Florence
180
The Topography of Marian Devotion
186
Santa Maria del Fiore
196
Mary and Renaissance Humanism
203

The Woman Robed in the Sun Figure of Prayerful Suffering
53
Mary and the Eucharist
56
Milk and the Earth
61
New Eve Seat of Wisdom Regina sanctorum
69
Mary as Woman
84
Parents Birth Education Betrothal
89
The Annunciation
95
The Visitation the Pregnancy the Nativity
106
Mary in the Houses of the Wealthy
209
Exploring the Psyche
211
Mary in the Tondo Doni
217
Mater dolorosa mater gloriosa
223
Appendix
229
Index of the Artists and their Works
230
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Giới thiệu về tác giả (2005)

A Yale-trained art historian, Timothy Verdon has lived in Italy since the 1960's. He became a priest of the Archdiocese of Florence in 1995 and currently directs the diocesan office for catechesis through art.

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