Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning - Allotting the Scarlet and the Purple

In Late Antique Images of the Virgin Annunciate Spinning: allotting the scarlet and the purple, Catherine Gines Taylor traces the way early Christians assimilated the symbolism of spinning into images of the Annunciation. Taylor offers an art historical and interdisciplinary look at the earliest images of Mary spinning, underscoring the iconographic model of idealized matronage consistent with lay piety and the cult of Mary. The personal and domestic nature of this motif is evidence toward popular Mariological devotion that preceded the exclusive, semi-divine presentation of the Theotokos, and stands in contrast with traditional ascetic models for Mary.

About the author

Catherine Gines Taylor, Ph.D. (2012), The University of Manchester, is a Visiting Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. She has published articles and book chapters on iconography and women within early Christian memorial settings, including The Pignatta Sarcophagus: Late Antique Iconography and the Memorial Culture of Salvation (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016).

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Gines Taylor, Catherine Gines Taylor
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2018
• EAN: 9789004346758
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34675-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Texts and Studies in Eastern C
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history