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...really could have been anyone; the idea behind it is that all Christians are unified in Christ and that we can all identify with each other through that common faith," she said...
Willem Dafoe, (2) Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ. Dafoe is in American Psycho with...
...marble statue of Eve, created by Auguste Rodin in 1899, shows Eve with arms wrapped around her body and head bent down in shame. Contrast this image of a woman whose weakness instigated the fall of mankind with Mary's role as a redeemer through the birth of Christ...
These parallels and contrasts, when seen in conjunction with works showing Mary calmly accepting Gabriel's news or holding Christ in Il Pontoricchio's 16th-century painting "Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist and Saints Andrew and Jerome," illuminate different qualities of the Virgin as portrayed by artists over the centuries...
Other connections between the text and the art are more obscure. Most modern-day viewers have difficulty seeing the anti-Semitic overtones that Katz points out in Michel Wohlgemut's drawing of Christ's circumcision, as shown by a look at the puzzled comments left by visitors. Likewise, the fact that Mary's Assumption into heaven is not part of Protestant belief says little about Pedro Gonzalez Berruguete's depiction of her ascent...