Mary Crowned with Roses
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Mary Crowned with Roses
- 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. 80v, s. G18769a, 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 6 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 (top-left). The object(s) are crown; roses; throne. The living being(s) are Mary; Jesus Christ.
- 2. Zakāryās praying the greeting of the angel before the icon of Mary (top-center). The object(s) are throne. The living being(s) are Mary; Jesus Christ.
- 3. Zakāryās prostrating himself (bottom-left).
- 4. The chief of the thieves hiding behind a tree (top-center). The object(s) are tree; club.
- 5. Zakāryās standing before St Mary, who is sitting on a throne surrounded by angels, and collects roses out of his mouth (top-right). The object(s) are throne; roses. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 6. The thieves being consecrated as monks (bottom-right). The living being(s) are monk.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How the young man Zakāryās fastened a crown of roses for our Lady.
- 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 1806.
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