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The border shows plants which symbolise the virtues of the Virgin Mary, such woodland strawberries, roses and violets; Mary's robe is blue, a traditional colour attribution. In Christian iconography plants appear mainly as attributes on the pictures of Christ or the Virgin Mary.
Christ Taking Leave of his Mother is a 1595 oil on canvas painting by a Greek artist Theotokopoulos Domenikos, better known as El Greco. [1] The painting represents the first depiction of the subject by the artist. [2] Christ taking leave of his Mother was a subject more often found in Northern Renaissance art, and earlier in the century.
The Virgin Mary, also known as Mater Dolorosa, although this title is now considered misleading, [1] is a late 1590s or early 1600s painting by the Greek born, Spanish Mannerist painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos (El Greco). It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 276. [2]
Christ taking leave of his Mother is a subject in Christian art, most commonly (although not exclusively) found in Northern European art of the 15th and 16th centuries. Christ says farewell to his mother Mary , often blessing her, before leaving for his final journey to Jerusalem , which he knows will lead to his Passion and death; indeed this ...
The veneration of Mary was consolidated in the year 431 when, at the Council of Ephesus, the descriptive, Theotokos, or Mary the bearer (or mother) of God, was declared a dogma. Thereafter Marian devotion, centred on the subtle and complex relationship between Mary, Jesus, and the Church, began to flourish, first in the East and later in the West.
Michelangelo Buonarotti's Pietà in Saint Peter's Basilica, 1498–1499.Crowned by the Pontifical decree of Pope Urban VIII in 1637.. The Pietà (Italian pronunciation:; meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the mortal body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross.
In the central part, Jesus is blessing his Mother. The gesture of his hand is to calm the rest of the women who mourn over the coming events. Among the women, apart from the fainting Mary, dressed in a navy blue robe, are Mary, mother of James embracing her, a kneeling Mary Magdalen, Mary of Clopas and Mary Salome.
In paintings, Mary is traditionally portrayed in blue. This tradition can trace its origin to the Byzantine Empire , from c. AD 500 , when blue was "the color of an empress". A more practical explanation for the use of this color is that in Medieval and Renaissance Europe , the blue pigment was derived from the rock lapis lazuli , a stone ...