Building the TempleMarian Imagery and Iconographic Influences in the Late Middle Ages
- 1 Ca’Foscari University of Venice
- André Filipe Oliveira da Silva (dir.)
- André Madruga Coelho (dir.)
- José Simões (dir.)
- Silvana R. Vieira de Sousa (dir.)
Editorial: Publicações do Cidehus
ISBN: 9791036591372, 9791036591372
Año de publicación: 2022
Título del volumen: Space(s)
Volumen: 2
Congreso: International Congress of Young Researchers in Middle Ages (ICYRMA) (2. 2019. Evora)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
The present chapter investigates the construction of Mary’s Presentation to the Temple as reflected in visual material pertaining mostly to thirteenth-sixteenth-century French1 illuminated manuscripts in relation to fresco representations2. Beginning with the analysis of Mary’s Presentation to the Temple in textual sources, the core of the article highlights the contribution and use of various iconographies in building relatively new Marian imagery. One of these influences is the iconography of Christ’s entrance to the Temple3, hence, the use of canonical iconography for non-canonical/apocryphal visual material. This section builds on the argument of Jacqueline Lafontaine-Dosogne that Mary’s Presentation is visually modeled on that of Christ’s, an assertion that needs further demonstration in order to determine the amount of such influence4. The present research also highlights the contribution of other iconographies, besides that of Christ’s, in the construction of Mary’s Presentation such as that of child oblation into monastic space. The research concludes by emphasizing the use of common iconographic patterns, placed in the context of specific hagiographic tendencies in the late middle ages, and the emergence of new religious feasts in relation to liturgical developments.