medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Saturday, August 26, 2006, at 1:49 pm, Jim Bugslag wrote, adding to
something I'd said:
> > > 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').
>
> The crowned image of "Maria Regina" was quite an early iconographic
> development
> of the city of Rome and dates probably from the 7th century. The
> icon in the church
> of S. Maria in Trastevere, c. 705-7, and the wall painting in the
> church of S. Maria
> Antiqua are early examples. Corresponding icons in the Byzantine
> east *never*
> depict Mary crowned.
Here's a view of the painting in Santa Maria Antiqua:
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ulj/fresco01.jpg
And here's a view of the one in Santa Maria in Trastevere:
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ulj/painting02.jpg
There's a nice later fourteenth-century example in the lunette above the
front (east) portal of the cathedral of the Assunta at Altamura (BA) in
Apulia.
A distance view is here:
http://static.flickr.com/45/127955016_f9bdeac55d.jpg?v=0
and a detail view is here:
http://tinyurl.com/q4ekb
Best again,
John Dillon
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