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Picturing Mary addresses the story of women and art by focusing on the most frequently depicted woman in Western art until the eighteenth century . The Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, embodied the Christian ideal of womanhood. She was the archetype of a passionately devoted woman and strong yet tender mother.
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Women in Scripture Art Reflections. Fleur Dorrell explores paintings of 16 different women in the Bible as interpreted by some inspiring artists.
Thinking Through the Body: Women Artists and the Catholic Imagination ELEANOR HEARTNEY Mariology-the veneration of the Virgin Mary-exerts a profound influence on women artists from Catholic backgrounds. Internalizing the mixed signals Mary transmits about purity, female strength, and compassion, they reinterpret the stories
Strong traditions had existed since antiquity of allegorical images and depictions of the virtues as females. Such images appeared in metaphorical texts and allegorical imagery, often associated with mystical movements, as spir-itual expressions of connectedness with God or at least with prosperity.
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Religious stories in many societies ascribe potent creative powers, both reproductive and artistic, to goddesses and everyday women. Across cultures, women creatives, from nuns to calligraphers, have also made works revering the divine.
In many ways, particularly methodologically and subject-wise, the referencing of women in religious art has been a protectorate within the Western and Christian spotlight, and in particular European art and artists, in distinction from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
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Mar 6, 2019 · Christian art has always depicted women, says Robin Jensen, a professor at Notre Dame who specializes in the history of Christianity and liturgical studies.
