Our Lady In Art

Our Lady In Art

Author: Jenner, Henry, Mrs

Year: 1910

CONTENTS Introductory Summary XV PART I THEOLOGICAL AND DEVOTIONAL I. Our Lady in Early Art as the Great Intercessor — The Immaculate Conception 1 II. Attributes and Symbols — Titles — Votive Pictures 11 III. The Virgin and Child in Early Art — Enthroned Madonnas 28 IV. The Virgin and Child in the Middle Ages 39 V. The Virgin and Child — Domestic Groups and Modern Art 58 VI. The Pieta — Mater Dolorosa — The Last Judgment 65 PART II HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL VII. Early Life 75 VIII. The Annunciation 91 IX. The Visitation 103 X. The NatiVIty 110 XI. The Adoration of the Magi 119 XII. The Purification — The Flight into Egypt 128 XIII. The Home at Nazareth — The Finding in the Temple — The Miracle of Cana 141 XIV. Calvary 152 XV. The Resurrection — The Ascension — The Descent of the Holy Ghost 165 XVI. The Death of Our Lady and her Assumption 173 XVII. The Coronation of Our Lady in Heaven 187 Bibliography 197 Index 199 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MADONNA AND CHILD WITH S. JEROME AND S. DOMINIC Frontispiece From the painting by Filippino Lippi in the National Gallery, London. From a photograph by W. A. Mansell and Company. OUR LADY AS THE GREAT INTERCESSOR 1 From a bas-relief in S. Mark's,