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    The virgin and child is known as Morgan Madonna as well. The sculpture was made in the twelve century and is Romanesque Art. The Morgan and child is a sculpture made out of painted wood that was used to adorn church portals. It was made during the Romanesque period. Mary is as the throne for Christ since she is seated on the throne. Any depiction of Mary with Jesus on her lap is known as the thrown of wisdom. Christ’s wisdom is depicted in his adult head and small body. Is figure was used as a religious

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    Art In The Renaissance

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    working at certain points in time. Take Duccio for example. His first commission for a Maestá was in Florence for a Dominican-oriented group that sought to do good deeds in the name of the Virgin Mary. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the altarpiece for the Santa Maria Novella church would depict the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child as the main subject matter. As Duccio was a Sienese painter and was influenced by other Sienese painters, many aspects of Sienese artistry is evident in his paintings

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    Alessandro Magnasco, Interior with Monks, circa 1725, oil on canvas Guariento di Arpo, Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece, 1344, tempera and gold leaf on panel Coronation of the Virgin is the work of Italian painter Guariento di Arpo (c. 1310-1370) and displays special tribute to the Virgin Mary and her coronation as the Queen of Heaven. Chronologically, the coronation of the Virgin Mary comes after her Ascension and it is a part of the apocryphal traditions of the church, and it was common inspiration

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    The Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux was commissioned by Queen Jeanne d’Evreux, wife of King Charles IV, sometime between 1324 and 1339, and donated to the royal abbey church of Saint-Denis in 1339 according to the inscription on the pedestal (Barbier). French royals in the 13th and 14th centuries often had luxury works of metal and enamel commissioned for churches, palaces, or their private homes (Kleiner). This particular statuette represents the Virgin Mary and her child (Barbier). It is sculpted with

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    Milestone 2 Task 3: Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels Introduction The title of this artwork is Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels. It was created by François Boucher in Paris. It was painted in the year 1765. It was painted with oil on a canvas. This painting is housed in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, New York. In this painting, Boucher wonderfully depicts the Virgin Mary and the baby Jesus, along with a toddler

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    Research Paper On Mary

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    Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ. Mary was also a saint of the lord. God came down and told her. You are going to be blessed with a child of, god. And you will be the virgin Mary of, God. Mary was blessed by Jesus. When she had Jesus, god gave her to never sin. He never did. “Mary is one of the most admired figures in scripture and considered by many to be the greatest of all Christian saints.” She becomes a saint. “An angel comes down to her and say you are having a child of god.” God picks

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    the churches popularity influenced many artists to depict biblical senses in their artwork. In Virgin and Child from Saint-Denis, presents an expressive Mary delicately cradling her child Christ. In contrast Raphael’s Small Cowper Madonna uses a balance of harmony and celebration of humanity to portray an authoritative and solid painting of an affectionate Mary while holding her son Christ. The Virgin and Child was donated to the abbey by the French queen Jenne d’Evreux. This statue was possibly

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    treasures relating Mexico and giving me a sense of how the event has been portrayed in the heart of Mexican artists. There are a lot of paintings and sculpture relate to the Virgin of Guadalupe. I was attracted by the "Aparición de la Virgen de Guadalupe", is an 18th-century oil on copper painting by José de Páez and “Virgin of Guadalupe Touched by the Wonderful

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    3.2. Mary Dorcey’s “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear” Another poem which manifests against the Catholic view of women is the Mary Dorcey’s “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear” in which the lesbian love is juxtaposed with the deliberately silenced reality of the sexual assaults against women (Fogarty 93-94). Lesbian sexuality was a disorder according to the 1992 Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Moane 442) and although they were not criminalized, it was definitely

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    Cult of the Virgin in the Gothic Era: Was there another side to the Virgin’s image? In the Gothic era, when it was popular for artist to create images and symbols of the Virgin Mary, began the Cult of the Virgin. Many artists focused on the Virgin Mary with Christ as the main topic in their art work. Did all the creations made of the Virgin portray her as good? Could some of the artists want to give a negative interpretation of the Virgin that could have only been seen through the artist’s eye

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