An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture.
represent her motherhood, not as a monstrous experience, but instead as a source of her power. ... in a different context, in my book Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture, which is forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer Press. 2.
W. Tronzo (Washington, DC, 1990), 109–26 Michael, M.A., 'A Manuscript Wedding Gift from Philippa of Hainault to Edward III', ... Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1990 Morgan, N., Early Gothic Manuscripts 1190–1250, Vol.
On visual portrayal of the Annunciation, see M. Bleeke, Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture. Representations from France, c. 1100–1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp.
This collection attacks these myths directly by insisting that readers encounter the relics of the Middle Ages on their own terms.
There is no originality here, the mathematical deconstruction having been done already by Augustine.25 Alcuin's purpose is indoctrination. ... Available at [accessed 1 February 2018].
Yellow, for example, might signify glory when worn by St. Peter or Joseph in Medieval Christian art, but could mean cowardice when worn by Judas. Red could mean divine love when worn by St. John the Evangelist, and sin when associated ...
She also explores how indigenous people in Central America, Africa, and Asia remade Mary and so fit her into their own cultures.Beautifully written and finely illustrated, this book is a triumph of sympathy and intelligence.
By the Late Middle Ages, the cult of the saints that spread through prints and vernacular stories, such as legends of St. Joseph filling the role of a father, and St. Anne as a mother, showed signs of adaptation to the secular social ...
95 Rickert, Painting in Britain, 109. 96 An example is the so-called “Madonna della Tenerezza" in the oratory of Sant'Anna in Foligno (Annabel Thomas, Art and Piety in the female religious communities of Renaissance Italy [Cambridge: ...
historically and art historically, the field has brought awareness to the activities of both sexes that defy narrow definitions of male and female behavior, ... 22–39, 67–71, rprt. in Women, art, and Power and other essays, ed.