Word: virginal
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...only mythological scene, of the moon goddess Diana. The favorite Diana myth among painters showed her bathing with her nymphs (good opening for a painter to show what he could do with pretty nudes) and spied upon by a Peeping Tom of a hunter, Actaeon; whereat the virgin moon goddess, her modesty offended, changed him into a stag. In Vermeer's version, circa 1653-54, there is no Actaeon, no river, no nakedness, and instead of plunging into the stream, Diana is merely having her foot washed in a basin by a nymph--Christian paganism, complete with that image...
...Entering the museum, the viewer is immediately confronted by the condensed collection of golden Madonna paintings rather than by the less dominating ink on paper drawings. Paintings of the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus have long defined the Renaissance revival, and this exhibition is no exception...
...seemingly monotonous ways in which Virgin Mary and Jesus are depicted, however, may easily deter the viewer from admiring the details in each individual painting. Virgin and Child often appear in repetitively similar postures—Virgin Mary cradles the Child in her arms, and they are often found clothed in rich, dark-colored robes in all of these Madonna paintings...
...Beneath this fabrication of monotony, subtle variety does occur. In fact, it is precisely this underlying variety that makes this show so interesting. While Pietro’s “Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels” shows a large enthroned Madonna rich with religious imagery, Vivarini’s “Virgin and Child” on the other hand, depicts Virgin and Child in a much more naturalistic manner. While “the” Child in Pietro’s painting looks more like an adult filled with knowledge and wisdom, Christ...
...focus on the gradual progression from iconographical elements to a naturalist setting ultimately culminates into the Fogg Museum’s core acquisition for this exhibit—The “Sacra conversazione”(also known as “Virgin and Child with Saints”), a Venetian altarpiece by an unknown artist dating from 1515. The altarpiece depicts the Virgin and Child occupied in a sacred conversation with saints, a “sacra conversazione.” With the paintings soft colors and sense of space, its former attribution to Renaissance masters such as Bellini...