1/2
Re: Q: Images of saints Anne and Mary (5)
Joachim Homann
SHEINGORN, P., "The Wise Mother: The Image of St. Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary"Gesta 32 (1993), pp. 69-80.
Hope you find it useful Dr. Carlos Sastre
_______________________________________________________________________
From: "Jasmin Johnson" <ditcham@lineone.net>
I appreciate that you're looking for modern images but this particular mother-daughter pairing is enormously well represented in late medieval art, especially in northern Europe. There are a lot of good images in a book called "Interpreting Cultural Symbols- St Anne in late Medieval Society" ed K Ashley and P Sheingorn (University of Georgia Press 1990). The situation is complicated by the tradition of the "other" Marys- Anne's two other
daughters Mary Salome and Mary Cleophas, who were necessary to account for the references to James as Jesus' brother in the Gospels. This gave rise
to a sub-genre of the Holy Kindred- all the Marys plus their husbands and offspring seated round St Anne. There is a lovely tryptych in the Musee des Beaux Arts in Brussels by Quentin Matsys, painted for a confraternity of St Anne in Leuven, which puts the whole family on charmingly chaotic display, with one of the younger infants (needless to say not the Christ child) about to do something aggressive to an illuminated book of hours.
Best wishes Brian G H Ditcham
________________________________________________________________________
From: "Annamaria Ducci" <ducci@www.arte.unipi.it>
Dear Hilary,
I find your subject very interesting; I studied it in an essay dedicated to the image of the "woman with the book" in the early middle ages. I suggest you to verify St. Jerome's words about the matrilinear transmission of the culture by the books, which he states are much more important than silks and jewelry; there are many images in the late middle ages of St.Anne teaching the Virgin to read the Holy Scriptures (notably in XIII-XIV
ArtHist.net
2/2
century Psalters, French and English).
I know, it's a little help, but don't hesitate to write me again if you
need, and please don't forget to send me the reference of your article when published,
best regards, Annamaria Ducci
Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti Università di Pisa
ITALY
ducci@arte.unipi.it
_______________________________________________________________________
From: AnnaScherbaum@t-online.de (Jochen Scherbaum)
Dear Hilary, I worked on Duerers Life of Mary and if you are interested please contact! (Handbook on Duerers prints and thesis, which will be submitted by the end of April)
Yours
Anna Scherbaum Unterer Kaulberg 2 96049 Bamberg
_______________________________________________________________________
From: Michelle Peck Williams <michellepw@prodigy.net>
There's the Virgin and Child with St. Anne by Albrecht Durer. It's in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Seems like I've also seen a sculpture of Anne with the infant Mary at the Cloisters, which is a part of the MET. You can find their website at http://www.metmuseum.org. You can search the collection online, although not all the works are there.
--
Michelle Peck Williams :) Humanities Teacher
Paul Laurence Dunbar HS, Lexington, KY USA michellepw@prodigy.net
mpwill@fayette.k12.ky.us
Homepage: http://pages.prodigy.net/michellepw
Bookmarks: http://www.backflip.com/members/mpwilliams --
Reference:
Q: Re: Q: Images of saints Anne and Mary (5). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 11, 2002 (accessed Feb 27, 2022),
<https://arthist.net/archive/25000>.
