Here, Mary wears her signature blue cloak with a red shirt underneath. In this jovial scene, Mary tickles her son as her blue veil covers both of their heads.
By humanistically depicting the Virgin laughing with her baby, the Master of the Winking Eyes portrays Mary as a relatable mother, showcasing her humanity. Her veil, draped over both heads, symbolizes the human nature that Christ inherited from his mother as well as their loving bond. Beyond her role as Mother of God, Mary was often depicted as mother to all mankind. Mother of Mercy Madonna della Misericordia by an unknown artist illustrates this expansive definition of mother. The standing Virgin envelops the faithful beneath her cloak.
The earliest depictions of the Blessed Virgin Mary date back to the early 3rd century in the Catacomb of Priscilla , in Rome. About a century later, the heresy of Nestorianism unintentionally resulted in the further veneration of Mary. The ecumenical Council of Ephesus was convened in A. All dogmas have their source and end in the person of Jesus Christ! Tim Staples, Behold Your Mother, p.
To venerate her is to glorify Jesus; to honor her unique role in salvation history honors the Divine Author of salvation history. After it had been clarified, images of Mary became more common. From this period comes one of the origins of the color blue. During the Middle Ages, European artists began importing lapis lazuli from present-day Afghanistan—as had artisans for thousands of years, back to the days of ancient Egypt.
The cost was immense, so the color was reserved to either angels or the Blessed Virgin Mary. Merchants and artists would have had to pay a high price for importing a costly stone dye. Over the centuries, the portrayal of Mary in sacred art developed gradually. In the late Middle Ages she becomes more approachable, appearing more often in the garb of an unassuming peasant. The humanist conception of Mary gained further traction in the Renaissance: she is less empress of heaven, more mother—sewing, nursing and playing with the infant Jesus.
As the centuries passed, the sacred imagery of Our Lady developed more still: with her direct involvement. Rather, her choice of wardrobe relied more on the people she appeared to. Guadalupe is a good example of that: Our Lady appeared in a dress and mantle like a local mestiza woman. The mantle is blue-green, and adorned with stars. While most ancient cultures did not use blue — outside of Egypt — ancient Hebrews did use blue in their prayer lives.
Remember that Egypt was where the use of blue pigment was more common than elsewhere, so they would have known about blue pigment and dyes and how they were made. In the Temple at the time of Jesus, the veil in front of the holy of holies was made of linen adorned with blue, purple and scarlet yarn.
According to tradition, the girl Mary was one of the virgins living in the Temple who spun the scarlet and purple yarn for this sacred veil. This tradition comes to us today from the apocryphal Proto-evangelium of James, which deals with the birth and childhood of Mary.
While the Byzantine Empire influenced the church, the development of icons an Eastern Orthodox and Catholic form of prayer also grew. Mary played a central role in these icons. In icons of Mary, the Blessed Mother appears dressed in blue, or with a blue mantle over a red dress. In iconography, blue is the color of heaven and represents the divine. Mary is a human the color red in icons represents human life who became clothed in the divinity of God by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit.
By the medieval period in the West starting in the 10th century , there was a renewed interest in influences from Byzantine art. At the same time, red also became associated with Mary in art. For example, almost all of the artwork of Mary by Raphael one of the most notable artists in the 16th century, depicts her clothed in red, with a blue mantle.
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