medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> 2) The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Depicting Mary as a queen
became commonplace in the Counter-Reformation but is not unheard of earlier,
especially in representations of her as Sedes Sapientiae ('Seat of Wisdom').
or simply as the Queen of Heaven, seated with her Son, as at Senlis (late
1160s?):
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/senlis/tympdet.jpg
Brain (fragments from an iconographically similar tympanum from the late
1170s-80s?):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0159/sap01_lp000091_p.jpg
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0159/sap01_lp000092_p.jpg
there is a contemporary depiction of the *crowning* itself, but i can't quite
remember where it is from (Braine was my first thought, but that proved to be
a defective one, apparently).
c
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