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The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells

09/1943 | 486 | 83

Pages: 228-231

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Author:

Rosenau, Helen (Rosenau, Helen; Rosenau, H.)

Subjects

dates:

0700-0799

places:

Egypt / Ireland

subjects:

Mary, Virgin: and Child / Iconography / Visual sources

subjects:

Isis / Horus / Egyptian

subjects:

Christian iconography / Early Christian / Influence

works:

Book of Kells (Trinity College Library, Dublin)

Illustrations

Non-western art unattributed:

Plate I. A-Isis Holding Her Son Horus. Egyptian. Grey Schist. Height, 27 cm. (Museum, Cairo). B-Senmut Holding One of Queen Hatshepsut's Daughters. About 1480 B. C. Black Granite. Height, 60 cm. (Museum, Cairo). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells

Non-western art unattributed:

Plate I. C-Isis Holding the Figure of King Seti I on Her Knees. About 1300 B. C. Relief in the Wall of the Temple of Abydos. Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells

Western art unattributed:

Plate I. D-The Virgin and Child. From a Panel of Woven Silk. Sixth to Seventh Century. Height, 14 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells

Western art unattributed:

Plate II. A-The Golden Madonna. Ottonian. Beginning of the Eleventh Century. Wood with Thin Plate of Gilded Silver. Height, 75 cm. (Treasury of the Cathedral, Essen). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells

Western art unattributed:

Plate II. B-The Virgin and Child. From the Book of Kells. 760-820. (Trinity College, Dublin). Shorter Notice: The Prototype of the Virgin and Child in the Book of Kells

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