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Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning
Allotting the Scarlet and the Purple
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Catherine Gines Taylor
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
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In Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning: allotting the scarlet and the purple, Catherine Gines Taylor traces the way early Christians assimilated the symbolism of spinning into images of the Annunciation. Taylor offers an art historical and interdisciplinary look at the earliest images of Mary spinning, underscoring the iconographic model of idealized matronage consistent with lay piety and the cult of Mary. The personal and domestic nature of this motif is evidence toward popular Mariological devotion that preceded the exclusive, semi-divine presentation of the Theotokos, and stands in contrast with traditional ascetic models for Mary.
Author / Editor information
Catherine Gines Taylor, Ph.D. (2012), The University of Manchester, is a Visiting Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. She has published articles and book chapters on iconography and women within early Christian memorial settings, including The Pignatta Sarcophagus: Late Antique Iconography and the Memorial Culture of Salvation (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016).
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 12, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004362703
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
242
Illustrations:
5
Coloured Illustrations:
42
eBook ISBN:
9789004362703
Keywords for this book
Annunciation; late antiquity; Mary; art; art history; iconography; spinning; early Christian; women in antiquity
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in the art historical and iconographic development and patronage of Annunciation imagery in the earliest Christian centuries.
