Mary Crowned with Roses
Image displayed with permission of Brown University
Mary Crowned with Roses
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Brown University, Ethiopic Collection, Manuscript No. 14, f. 36v, s. 87, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page. You can also read the related story at its PEMM Story page.
- Many Geʿez manuscript paintings are in "Synoptic Narrative Art” style; that is, a single painting depicts multiple moments in the story, providing a series of vignettes representing different plot points. PEMM calls these "episodes". This painting of PEMM Story ID 153 has 2 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. The youth Zakāryās fastening a crown of roses to an icon of St Mary (left). The object(s) are crown; roses; couch; handkerchief; jewelry. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 2. Zakāryās tells the thieves about St Mary (right). The object(s) are spear; hat.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How the thieves surrounded Zakaryas and our Lady rescued him.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 38. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 67.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1345.
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