Virgin Group Essay

Just as Minh walks out of the bank, he spotted his two companions: a floating robot that looks like it could be from a sci-fi film and a german shepherd have been waiting for him on the sidewalk. When Minh walked towards them, both of them rush over to him. “Master Minh! Your back! So how did it go?” his robot friend questioned. “Well Charleston, this is what I got.” saids Minh holding out his wallet out. “The $1500 I got earlier within the bank and adding $200 I have on me now; now we’re up…

The Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George serves the same function of being a devotional piece to the Virgin Mary as the Rottgen Pieta. The Rottgen Pieta dates circa 1300 and was created by painted wood. The Virgin Mary is depicted in complete opposite ways in each of the artworks. In the Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George, the artist shows the Virgin Mary as a strong, imperial mother by draping her in a dark and bold purple robe. The artist also utilizes hierarchy…

Nestorius opposed the term because “whenever the sacred scriptures speak of Our Lord’s activity, they never speak of the birth and suffering of the divinity, but of the humanity of Christ. That is why the most accurate way of speaking about the Holy Virgin is Christ-bearer, not God-bearer” (Fouad, 2010). He emphasized that Christ had independent divine and human natures going so far as to suggest “that they were two persons loosely united” (Nestorian, 2016). Cyril was a staunch opponent to…

popular to portray, artists throughout the centuries show a great deal of variety in their depiction of the iconic duo. Found in the National Gallery of Ireland in the early Italian Renaissance gallery, The Virgin and Child, Saint John the Baptist and Prophets by an unknown artist and The Virgin and Child by Paolo Uccello reflect the drastic transition between Byzantine and early Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child especially related to subject matter, composition, material, style and…

The Vesperbild and the Pieta are funeral monument pieces conveying the emotions of pity, passion, and pain. Christ and the Virgin Mary effectively capture and translate those emotions from the artists’ imagination. Each sculpture successfully depicts the death of Christ, which Mary holds upon her lap in vein with high details as well. Most importantly, both sculptors found it fit to extend a particular style which they made their own when sculpting. Beyond the Vesperbild and the Pieta both…

The woman on the wall in Mr. White’s house is the Virgen de Guadalupe. She is the mother of Jesus. Traditionally, the Virgen is wearing a green robe with a pink dress underneath. While the painting on the wall, she wears green and has her hair in braids with white flowers around her¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬. When the White’s first moved into the house and saw the painting, they wanted to paint over it as soon as possible. Eventually though, Jamie grew to like it and told Mr. White not to paint over it. The…

The Our Lady of Laus is an elegant shrine and place of pilgrimage in the south-west part of France, in the town of Saint-Éttiene-le-Laus. The shrine depicts a teenage shepherdess named Benoîte Rencurel kneeling as in prayer to a young Mary holding baby Jesus. When Benoîte saw Mary, she has was told to build a grand chapel, "in honor of my son." Benoîte was also told to build a house next to the chapel for the priest to live The story of how Benoîte saw Mary dates back to the year 1664 in…

In this paper, one will describe the oil painting Madonna Enthroned. The central figure of this piece, as indicated by the title, is the enthroned Mary. Mary is grasping her son Jesus and is flanked on both sides by a number of angels. Below Mary and the angels is four elderly men, two of whom are divided by columns of the throne. Beginning with Mary, one immediately notices her halo as highlighted by numerous red, white, and darker red stylized jewels. Her face is oddly proportioned, with…

has ever captured my attention: the Allegory of Salvation with the Virgin and Christ Child, St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist and Two Angels. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary, holding the baby Jesus and St. Elizabeth with her son John the Baptist lying dead on the floor while there are two angels above them. It was produced by Italian artist, Rosso Fiorentino in year 1521. Fiorentino’s representation of the virgin and child is very grotesque that some of the art viewers believe…

The painting, The Marriage of the Virgin was is an oil on canvas created by Luis Juárez with being completed in 1635. It is about 2-3/5 feet tall and 1-2/5 feet wide. This painting was completed four years before Juárez died with living from 1585-1639 in New Spain. It is a painting that is part of the City of Davenport Art Collection with being a gift from an anonymous donor in 1995-6. It is currently being held at the Figge Art Museum. “Marriage of the Virgin represents the moment when the…