Vierge Ouvrante
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El objetivo de este artículo es conocer el proceso sincrético festivo del culto a la Virgen de Juquila en una comunidad urbana en la ciudad de Oaxaca, llamada San Juan Bautista Chapultepec o San Juanito. La visita a este santuario se... more
variety of mimetic representations included in the observance of major religious feasts in late medieval Krakow in southern Poland calls for closer scrutiny, though they are not easy to classify and their nature cannot be reduced to... more
Hasta la actualidad, entre el gran acervo de la imagineria virreinal en Mexico no se habia registrado ninguna virgen abridera, imagen surgida en la Baja Edad Media europea, tallada en madera dorada y policromada, con un par de puertas que... more
The persuasive power of a mother's breast: the most desperate act of the Virgin Mary's Advocacy1 SALVADOR RYAN (Dept. of History, NUI, Maynooth) Depictions of the Madonna and Child, which for centuries have adorned Catholic churches and... more
Only fairly recently has the discipline of art history formally established 'materiality' as a useful methodological framework, guided to some degree by the return to technical art history and the emergence of an anthropology of art. In... more
Nella Pinacoteca civica di Pieve di Cento (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna) è conservata una Madonna stante col Bambino del XIV secolo appartenente al gruppo delle Vierges ouvrantes o Madonne Scrigno in italiano. Si tratta di un tipo di Madonne... more
Resumo: Virgem Abrideira é uma escultura com um mecanismo frontal de abertura. Quando está fechada, apresenta a Virgem entronizada; quando aberta, exibe outras imagens religiosas incorporadas na cavidade de seu corpo. Elaboradas a partir... more
Lynn F. Jacobs: Opening Doors Jacobs' in jeder Hinsicht gewichtige Monografie ist das Produkt über zehnjähriger Arbeit, und das merkt man dem Buch auch an. Es wird sich-darin etwa Shirley Neilson Blums Studie von 1969 mit Fokus auf den... more
Elina Gertsman: Worlds Within Schreinmadonnen, also Marienfiguren, deren Körper sich mit Flügeln öffnen lassen und dann weitere Bilder in ihrem Inneren preisgeben, eignet ein hohes Maß an Alterität, aber auch ein gewisser... more
The depiction of the Virgin Mary as subject matter in the twelfth century is ubiquitous yet strategic. Two objectives were met with the production of a Virgin Mary reliquary, firstly as the mediator between the suffering mankind and the... more
This article discusses the ways in which the physical presence of consecrated virgins was perceived, described, and subsequently altered in Late Antiquity. In the course of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, through codes that regulated... more
The concept of the medieval city is fixed in the modern imagination, conjuring visions of fortified walls, towering churches, and winding streets. In Riemenschneider in Rothenburg, Katherine M. Boivin investigates how medieval urban... more
This study examines an exceptional articulated sculpture made toward the end of the XVIII century and found in the mining town of Zacatecas, Mexico. The life-size sculpture in question is in reality a liturgical puppet of Jesus Christ... more
This paper aims to provide an in-depth survey of grand-scale medieval Italian tabernacles and other types of closing altarpieces with all of their wings – or substantial parts thereof – still preserved (1200–1435). Most such altarpieces,... more
La Reforma auspiciada por los protestantes en el siglo XVI tuvo su correlato en la Contrarreforma católica nacida a partir del concilio de Trento (1545-1563). El cisma producido tuvo una enorme influencia en la expresión artística. Nuevos... more
Como un reducto de la cultura española en los actuales Estados Uni- dos, los santos de madera elaborados hoy en Nuevo México nos hablan de unas comunidades hispanas en busca de los símbolos de su identidad, de la esencia de su cultura,... more
This is an author produced version of a contribution to a monograph:
Wooden Madonna tabernacles from c.1150–c.1350 are today scarce, and it is therefore diffi cult to get a complete understanding of their original appearance and variations. Nevertheless there are still preserved at least fi fteen Madonna... more
... of the Law and the staff of a soothsayer and priest, which identifies him as a counter-magician. Biblical exegesis sup-ports this view of Moses, and Augustine, for example, com-ments on the battle of Moses and Aaron with the magicians... more
An exploration of the French Romanesque statues of Mary known as the Throne of Wisdom and their role as transcendent icon both then and now.
By the middle of the 12th C, the pilgrimage routes linking Western France and Northern Spain were dotted with small parish churches. These churches shared in common a portal configuration comprised of a set of concentric, inwardly stepped... more
- by mickey abel
Teilen ungeschriebene Medienrefl exionsgeschichte des Bildes muss ergänzend zu schriftlichen Quellen auch die selbstbezüglichen Aussagen der Bilder als Quelle nutzen lernen. Dies gilt insbesondere für Epochen wie das westliche... more
Die* bescheidene spätgotische Holzmadonna im Limburger Domschatz (Abb. 1) scheint eines Aufsatzes kaum würdig zu sein. Die nur 78,5 cm hohe Plastik zeigt eine Muttergottes, die, streng, frontal und symmetrisch gestaltet, auf einer... more
This book focuses on the Shrine Madonnas, or Vierges ouvrantes, sculptures which conceal within their bodies complex carved and/or painted iconographies. The Shrine Madonna emerged in Europe at the end of the 1200s, and reached a peak of... more
This paper was given at a one-day workshop entitled "Art and Death: Death and Dying" at the Courtauld Institute of Art in July 2012. It presents some of my doctoral research on a Vierge ouvrante sculpture from Maubuisson, France, and its... more
The problem of properly presenting physical vestiges of the divine—relics, images, and the Eucharist—was a preoccupation in France during the thirteenth century. With the specters of idolatry and sacrilege haunting either end of the... more
... the donor may have changed (M. Frinta, The Genius of Robert Campin, The Hague ... Medi-tations, noted by M. Freeman, "The Iconography of the Merode Altar-piece," Metropolitan Museum ... a 14th-century... more
- by Cynthia Hahn