Her Face: Images of the Virgin Mary in Art
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Book
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Category
Our Lady
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
First Glance Books, United States
Pages
160
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Description
In this unique pictorial narrative, the sequel to His Face: Images of Christ in Art, the life of the Virgin Mary - her youth, joy, sorrow, and glory - is portrayed in 114 glorious color reproductions of her face. The images selected from paintings in museums and private collections in North and South America present a stunning treasury of Marian iconocraphy from the twelfth century to the present.
In these luminous pages, compelling details of the Virgin's face from works by well-known Italian and northern European masters of the Renaissance and the Baroque - Piero della Fancesco, Giotto, Bellini, Mantegna, Botticelli, Crivelli, Fra Angelico, Raphael, Correggio, Rubens, Cranach, Grunewald, Van Dyck, Del Sarto, Poussin, Veronese, Tintoretto, Tiepolo - appear among those from paintings of the less frequently reproduced, but equally fine masters of the period - Carpaccio, Lotto, Carracci, Bronzino, and Perugino, among others.
Images of the Virgin from the western European tradition take their place among Byzantine and Russian icons, faces of Mary rendered by Baroque Spanish masters - Murillo, Zurbaran, El Greco - and Peruvian, Bolivian, Mexican, Haitian, and American artists from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.
Selections from sacred and secular texts from diverse traditions, many in translation, offer a treasury of words as rich and various as the imagery they accompany. Passages from the New Testament and Apocryphal Gospels recount episodes from the Virgin's life, while Coptic-Ethiopic texts and medieval lamentations provide Mary with her own voice to tell her own story. Traditional hymns from eastern and western liturgies and poetry by Petrarch, Boccaccio, Gorgona, Milton, Byron, Lope de Vega, Wordsworth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mary Coleridge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerard Manley Hopkins, WH Auden, and others, celebrate the enduring spiritual influence of the Virgin Mary as the mother of the Redeemer and mediatrix between heaven and earth.
Viewed together, image and word illuminate Mary's dual nature as Virgin and mother, mortal woman and Queen of Heaven with rare immediacy, power, and intensity. An unprecedented visual and spiritual experience, Her Face will inspire everyone who opens it.
Marion Wheeler is the author of His Face: Images of Christ in Art. She is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Master of Arts and Master of Philology in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. Ms. Wheeler, who lives in Ashfield, Massachusetts, is at work on a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay to be published by Scribner.
Taken from the inside flaps.
In these luminous pages, compelling details of the Virgin's face from works by well-known Italian and northern European masters of the Renaissance and the Baroque - Piero della Fancesco, Giotto, Bellini, Mantegna, Botticelli, Crivelli, Fra Angelico, Raphael, Correggio, Rubens, Cranach, Grunewald, Van Dyck, Del Sarto, Poussin, Veronese, Tintoretto, Tiepolo - appear among those from paintings of the less frequently reproduced, but equally fine masters of the period - Carpaccio, Lotto, Carracci, Bronzino, and Perugino, among others.
Images of the Virgin from the western European tradition take their place among Byzantine and Russian icons, faces of Mary rendered by Baroque Spanish masters - Murillo, Zurbaran, El Greco - and Peruvian, Bolivian, Mexican, Haitian, and American artists from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.
Selections from sacred and secular texts from diverse traditions, many in translation, offer a treasury of words as rich and various as the imagery they accompany. Passages from the New Testament and Apocryphal Gospels recount episodes from the Virgin's life, while Coptic-Ethiopic texts and medieval lamentations provide Mary with her own voice to tell her own story. Traditional hymns from eastern and western liturgies and poetry by Petrarch, Boccaccio, Gorgona, Milton, Byron, Lope de Vega, Wordsworth, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mary Coleridge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerard Manley Hopkins, WH Auden, and others, celebrate the enduring spiritual influence of the Virgin Mary as the mother of the Redeemer and mediatrix between heaven and earth.
Viewed together, image and word illuminate Mary's dual nature as Virgin and mother, mortal woman and Queen of Heaven with rare immediacy, power, and intensity. An unprecedented visual and spiritual experience, Her Face will inspire everyone who opens it.
Marion Wheeler is the author of His Face: Images of Christ in Art. She is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Master of Arts and Master of Philology in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. Ms. Wheeler, who lives in Ashfield, Massachusetts, is at work on a biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay to be published by Scribner.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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