Mary, Mother of God

Barbara Haeger, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 1983), Associate Professor, Emerita, The Ohio State University. Her numerous articles and essays on Netherlandish art and religion include “Rubens’s Rockox Triptych: Sight Meditation, and the Justification of Images", Nederlands Kunsthistorish Jaarboek 2006. Elliott D. Wise, Ph.D. (Emory University, 2016), Associate Professor of Art History, Brigham Young University. His research focuses on late medieval and early-modern devotional art, especially questions of liturgy, Eucharistic and Marian piety, and mysticism. James Clifton, Ph.D. (Princeton University, 1987), Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (director) and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (curator, Renaissance and Baroque painting). He has curated numerous exhibitions and published extensively on early-modern European art, especially concerning paintings, prints, and cabinets of curiosity.

Contents


Acknowledgments


List of Figures


Notes on Contributors





Introduction





1 Our Lady of Grace: Holy Wars and Artisanal Competitions


 Elliott D. Wise





2 Marian Devotions from a Printer’s Perspective


  The Rosary, the Seven Sorrows, and Gerard Leeu (d. 1492)


 Anna Dlabačová





3 “Lectulus noster floridus”: The Flower-Strewn Bed and the Virgin’s Womb




 James Clifton





4 Matters of the Flesh: Michelangelo’s Madonnas


 Kim Butler Wingfield





5 Revisiting the Annunciation in the Quattrocento: Wind, Kairos, Snail


 Barbara Baert





6 Duplex Intercessio: The Centrality of the Virgin in Giovanni Battista Gaulli’s Dome Fresco in the Gesù


 Steven F. Ostrow





7 Van Dyck’s Lamentation for the Church of the Recollects in Antwerp: Making Visible the Virgin Mary as Co-redemptrix


 Barbara Haeger





8 Navigating Theological Differences: Rembrandt and the Grieving Mother of Christ


 Shelley Perlove





9 Gemma Mexicanus: Our Lady of Tepepan in New Spain


 Cristina Cruz González





10 Picturing the Mughal Madonna: The Virgin Mary as a Symbol of Legitimacy and Royal Authority in Jahangir’s Architecture


 Mehreen Chida-Razvi





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