Mary's Conception and Birth
Image displayed with permission of Art Institute of Chicago
Mary's Conception and Birth
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1667-1706. You can view this painting in the manuscript Art Institute of Chicago, Ada Turnbull Hertle and Marian and Samuel Klasstorner endowments, Manuscript No. 2002.4, f. 28v, s. G18717a, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript 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 316-A has 2 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. Joachim and Hanna pray for a child near a tall tree with birds in its branches (bottom-left). The object(s) are tree; bird. The living being(s) are Joachim; Hanna.
- 2. An angel appears to Hanna and to Joachim (bottom-right). The object(s) are tree; bird. The living being(s) are Joachim; Hanna; angel.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How Joachim and Hanna grieved.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 4. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 10.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1785.
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