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Venerating The Mystery The Vir
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The Fogg Museum's icon "The Virgin and Child" captures and venerates the mystery of the Madonna in a way that powerfully awes even the modern viewer. The work entrances the viewer with mesmeric textures and shapes while removing him from the holy and unknowable religious space it creates. The resul ....
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.... free from physical forces, sacred. Her face is at the apex of the ungilded space and is surrounded by an approximately 3/8 inch raised golden arch (Figure 1, Feature 1). She is the spatial center of a field of golden energy. The virgin's long hands are almost abstracted and imply an other-ness, a slightly alien characteristic. She literally radiates power, but it is otherworldly, not human.
The viewer while entranced, is not meant to become one with Mary, but rather to be excluded from the.... |
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