Mary Crowned with Roses
Image displayed with permission of Gunda Gunde Monastery
Mary Crowned with Roses
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, and dated to 1700-1799. You can view this painting in the manuscript Gunda Gunde Monastery, Gunda Gunde Manuscripts Collection, Manuscript No. 43, f. 35r, s. 72, 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 4 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. Zakāryās standing before St Mary, who is sitting on a throne surrounded by angels, and collects roses out of his mouth (top-left). The object(s) are couch; crown; roses; tree. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 1. The episode descriptions are not yet been translated into Amharic.
- 2. The youth Zakāryās fastening a crown of roses to an icon of St Mary (top-right). The object(s) are couch; crown; roses. The living being(s) are Mary.
- 2. The episode descriptions are not yet been translated into Amharic.
- 3. The episode descriptions are not yet been translated into Amharic.
- 3. The thieves hiding behind trees (bottom-left). The object(s) are tree; spear; sword; scabbard; shield; hat.
- 4. Zakāryās tells the thieves about St Mary (bottom-right). The object(s) are sword; scabbard; tree.
- 4. The episode descriptions are not yet been translated into Amharic.
- 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 2035.
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