Mary Crowned with Roses
Image displayed with permission of Museum of the Bible
Mary Crowned with Roses
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript dated to 1650-1749. You can view this painting in the manuscript Museum of the Bible, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. 333, f. 72v, s. 73a, 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. 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.
- 2. The thieves seize Zakāryās (bottom-right). The object(s) are sword; scabbard; hat.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How Zachariah bowed to her and flowers came out of his mouth.
- 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 2151.
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