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A Quiet Holiness: Caravaggio's Madonna di Loreto

A Quiet Holiness: Caravaggio’s Madonna di Loreto

August 5, 2013 · by Amy · in Art History, Caravaggio, Explorations, Sacred Art, Series

Gentle, sensuous, tender, human. These are just a few of the words that describe Caravaggio’s depictions of the Virgin Mary. His Marian works rarely, if ever, reflect the same vibrant optimism seen in his peers’ paintings of the Virgin.1 Rather, glorification of the…

The Nativity

The Nativity

December 22, 2011 · by Amy · in Art, Art History, Jesus, Religious History, Sacred Art, Series

The Nativity of Jesus is drawn from accounts of Christ’s birth in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew. Following the Annunciation, Mary tells Joseph that she is with child and goes to visit her relative, Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John…

The Annunciation

The Annunciation

December 16, 2011 · by Amy · in Art History, Religious History, Sacred Art

Hello readers! Merry Christmas! In the coming days before Christmas, we’re going to examine the Christmas story, starting with the Annunciation. This is an important event in Christianity  and one of the most popular iconographies in Marian art. Before we start…

Vengeful Seductress: Judith

Vengeful Seductress: Judith

November 30, 2011 · by Amy · in Art, Art History, Caravaggio, Explorations, Religious History, Series

I’m so excited about this post. Since it obviously can’t be book or even research paper length, I have to warn you that it will not do justice to the topics it addresses (Artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Caravaggisti, Judith, Judith Slaying…

Sexy Seductress: Potiphar's Wife

Sexy Seductress: Potiphar’s Wife

November 28, 2011 · by Amy · in Art History, Explorations, Series

The story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife can be found in Genesis 39. At this point in Joseph’s story, he had been nearly killed and then sold into slavery by his brothers and had wound up in Egypt in Pharaoh’s,…

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