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Picturing Mary : woman, mother, idea / Timothy Verdon, Melissa R. Katz, Amy G. Remensnyder, Miri Rubin.

"Iconic and devotional, but also fraught with social and political significance, the image of the Virgin Mary has shaped Western art since the sixth century. Depictions of the Virgin Mary in art through the ages are examined from a unique combination of religious, cross-cultural, and contempora...

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Other Authors: Verdon, Timothy (guest curator,, contributing essayist.), Katz, Melissa R. (contributing essayist.), Remensnyder, Amy G. (Amy Goodrich), 1960- (contributing essayist.), Rubin, Miri, 1956- (contributing essayist.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Washington, DC : Scala Arts Publishers ; National Museum of Women in the Arts, [2014]
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art > Exhibitions.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Pictorial works.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Symbolism.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Art.
Symbolism.
Exhibition catalogs.
Pictorial works.
Table of Contents:
  • Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea / Timothy Verdon
  • God-Bearer and Woman: Christian Traditions of Picturing Mary throughout History / Miri Rubin
  • Warrior and Diplomat: Mary Between Islam and Christianity / Amy G. Remensnyder
  • Mary, the Mirror: Sacred Imagery and Secular Experience / Melissa R. Katz
  • Picturing Mary: 14th-19th Centuries.

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