By then, gossip-biographer Giorgio Vasari had situated Florence, Rome, and Venice as centers of Renaissance art. You can feel ... painterly knowledge. The Virgin Mary was the patron saint of ...
In an exploration of faith, history and storytelling, Judith M. Davis has published "Finding the Virgin Mary: Her Evolving Stories from Early Christianity to Modernity" (McFarland Publishing, 2024).
and the halos on both Baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary are all in gold — a symbol of divinity. No halos — therefore, less gold ...
Experts cleaning a supposed imitation of a Botticelli painting have discovered it was actually created in the Renaissance ... which shows a melancholy Virgin Mary holding a baby Christ and a ...