After watching the Many Faces of Mary in Art video in class, I decided to do some research online regarding the different depictions of Mary - I find it interesting that Mary is perceived by different cultures (and therefore, depicted so differently) among various cultures... Yet, historically, all of these images depict the same woman.
On the online Encyclopedia Britannica online, I found a more in-depth explanation that touches on the same things as our video - bringing us through the timeline of Mary's different "faces"... from the Theotokos, to the Byzantine icon, to the devotional images later on popular in Western Europe.. and we also must think of other artists' depictions of the Mother Mary... Michelangelo's Pieta, for example.
She has been portrayed as humans have wanted to portray her, which was based on cultural standards and likes... I have included a couple of links..
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/355920/Madonna
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Madonna_(art).html
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