Art Celebrates The Presentation of Mary

Art Celebrates The Presentation of Mary

November 21, 2016November 22, 2016 Posted in Catholic Art

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a liturgical feast celebrated on November 21 by the both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

In the apocryphal Infancy Narrative of James, Mary’s parents, Joachim and Anne, had been childless but received a heavenly message- they would have a child.

In thanksgiving for the gift of their daughter, they brought her, when still a child, to the Temple in Jerusalem to consecrate her to God.

Tradition held that she was to remain there to be educated in preparation for her role as Mother of God. most of the paintings capture a sense of Mary’s purity, of course, but also a combination of youth, vulnerability and her core strength at the all at the same time.

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Painting by Camillo Procaccini in the the Madonna del Carmine chapel, in santa Maria del Carmine church.

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Presentation of Mary, by Giotto

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Prosper Piatti The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Prosper Piatti Melanie Jean Juneau Pinned by Melanie Jean Juneau Pin it Send Edit Photograph of a stained glass window of “The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, Our Lady of Victories, London Photograph of a stained glass window of “The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, Our Lady of Victories, London

2b9b4fa7d392ea97b39ccfc1a62bebf3 — Theotokos’s Entry into the Temple (The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Mosaic.c. AD1080. Daphni Monastery, Athens.

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Prosper Piatti

CARPACCIO, Vittore The Presentation of the Virgin (detail) 1504-08

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