Blessed Virgin Mary

The Virgin and the Child Reading or Ince Hall Madonna, an oil painting that painted by Jan Van Eyck in 1433. It was a painting near the early renaissance, therefore, this artwork present religious idea, which is about the Catholic’s Madonna. However, gods in religious paintings were starting to be humanized. “Jan van Eyck is credited with originating a style of painting characterized by minutely realistic depictions of surface effects and natural light.” (The Nation Gallery) Van Eyck was a…

The painting, “Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints”, also known as, Colonna Altarpiece, is an Italian renaissance painting completed by Raphael in 1504. The altarpiece is painted on wood with oil and gold and its main panel is 172.4cm by 172.4 cm and depicts a woman sitting in a throne like chair in the middle third of the painting. She is dressed in a red dress covered by a black cloak with white spots, which covers most of her body from her hair to her feet. The folds in her cloak are…

Julian of Norwich, in her Revelations of Divine Love, synthesizes the asceticism which had permeated the Roman Catholic Church from its earliest history with the philosophical advancements made by Saint Thomas Aquinas only one hundred and fifty years before her. She does this seamlessly and almost certainly unintentionally, demonstrating that the philosophical developments of Saint Thomas Aquinas were familiar concepts to her such that they shaped her mystic religious view. Despite the…

Since the background sky has dark, grey clouds, the light is most likely artificial light most likely from the left side of the room. This is because the shadows of Mary and from the feet of the table are both going in a diagonal direction towards the right corner of the room. You can also see the shadows from the heads of the men on the brick wall. This lighting and the aging of the painting creates colors that are duller. The painting is symmetrical because there are three columns on each side…

“Annunciation,” considered one of Fra Angelico’s most splendid works of art, was initially painted for the church San Domenico outside of Florence. Currently, the painting is located at Museo Diocesano in Cortona. According to Vasari, this painting could not be created by a mortal hand, and such glorification attributes to the painting a very divine and peculiar touch. Angel Gabriel’s profile is so delicate and devout that it looks like it was directly painted in Paradise. The incredible…

the same leg in both painings. They are also surrounded by many different people in each painting. Duccio made Mary elegant. She is regal and light weight. This Mary feels as if she were royalty that we adore but cannot touch. This Mary does not have depth due to lack of shadowing. She feels flat and wafer thin. Mary turns her body so that her knees are parallel to us. This has Mary taking up a majority of the center of the painting. Duccio…

although they were treated almost like slaves in that location and time period. Also, Joseph, after being very distrusting of Mary’s story of the angel, is easily convinced and gives his all in order to get Mary to Bethlehem. The argument between Joseph, Mary and Zechariah concerning whether or not Mary is telling the truth about the story of the angel is something I am yet to discover in the Biblical text. I believe this was added to the film for simple entertainment as well as clarification…

I volunteered as a tutor at Saint Mary 's bridge Home through the PULSE program this year. Working with a population of disenfranchised youth at Saint mary 's center taught me one key lesson that I would like to bring to the Student Technology Specialist position; Computer Science and Math is for everyone. No matter who it is or what type of school…

Therefore, Jerusalem can be the city with many different beliefs, cultures and products. For example, Virgin and Child Enthroned and the Crucifixion painting, and the wool material, Piece of Carpet with Geometric Design, shows that Jerusalem is a significant city of the Silk Road. The painting, Virgin and Child Enthroned and the Crucifixion, was painted around ca. 1275-85 in Acre, Israel. In Virgin and Child Enthroned,…

Anne in St. Anne Instructing the Virgin (Fol. 13). It is no accident that the first suffrage in this prayer book is dedicated to the saint with the same name as the patron; certainly, this primary position was deliberately chosen, indicating the particular devotion to this saint that Anne de Bretagne had. The inclusion of St. Anne is not only significant because of the name. As the mother of the Virgin, she is significant, as well, and she, along with the Virgin herself, serves as a model of…