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Blessed Daughter - From "Annunciation" See Image Of Our Lady Of The Evolution Of Painting

Posted on:2014-08-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:T ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1265330401471215Subject:Fine Arts
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This essay take the painting Annunciation as an example, makes a concrete analysis of the virgin Mary’s image from the perspective of Christianity’s spread and development, and the impact that social development in Middle Ages and Renaissance have on painting. From the pictures, we can see the change of the gesture that angle points to Mary in Middle Age and Renaissance these two ages, and the changes of angle Gabriel’s image that gradually develop from pure male image to neutral and even female image. The pictures discuss and compare the changes, and deeply analyse the impact on motif that the rise and extension of church power and the checks and balances between imperial power or authority and common customs have left. Besides, according to the promotion of female status that expressed in the picture, it analyse and compare the change that women grow from being perfectly obedient to others to germinating their self-awareness. In the meantime, the practical significance of making a mutual corroboration of the detail description of related paragraph in the Bible and the subject of this essay lies in finding out more similarities and sympathetic responses in ikon this painting subject, summarizing the significance that religious themes have on celebrity worship and presentation and expression in work of art from one aspect by analysing through the development of Christianism, painting trait in the two ages and the changes of female status in Middle Age and Renaissance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mary, Christianity, annunciation, angel, female status
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