EROS IN LATER CHRISTIAN ART
(With The Virgin Mary)
Note how later Christian art even duplicated Eros’s nakedness:
http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # EL006924, Renaissance Silverwork Reliquary with form of the Virgin Mary, Christian art:
http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # DE004159, Virgin Mary in Glory with Saints by Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo, ca. 1481-1559, Christian art:
http://lafrusta.homestead.com/riv_Tiziano.html, When Was Titian Born (1476), “Tiziano - Assunzione della Vergine o Pala dell'Assunta - (1516-1518) [Assumption of the Virgin, by Titian]”:
http://liechtensteinmuseum.at/en/pages/artbase_main.asp?module=browse&action=m_work&lang=en&sid=924256440&oid=W-1472004121953420197, Peter Paul Rubens, The Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1637:
“Virgin” with “Erotes” shows someone’s muddleheaded.
http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # IX002791, The Assumption of the Virgin by Circle of Juan de Valdes, ca. 17th century, Christian art:
Again, here’s Erotes in pagan art:
Eros in Pompeii:
Here’s Eros with Aphrodite:
So, for all you doubting Thomas’s still out there, here’s an example of what Eros does not look like:
Gnaw, this ain’t him either:
… Yeah, there we go.
The Social History of Art, Hauser, 1952, Vol. 1, illustration 90, plate XXXVII.2, “Lodovico Carracci: Madonna with Saints”:
Vatican Museums, Rome, Newsweek, 1968, p. 155, “Raphael: Madonna of Foligno (1511-1512)”:
Man and the Renaissance, Martindale, 1966, p. 12, “Virgin of the Assumption. 1414-21”:
Medieval Art, Stokstad, 1986, p. 324, chapter 10, illustration 46, “High Gothic Art in France”:
Someone finally put some clothes on him:
Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts, Katz, Oxford, 2001, p. 38 & 205, Fig. 23 & 137: Hendrik Goltzius, Annuniciation, 1594, engraving:
Notice how other angels are clothed.
Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts, Katz, Oxford, 2001, p. 49, Fig. 37: Albrecht Dürer, Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1503, woodcut from the Life of the Virgin series:
Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts, Katz, Oxford, 2001, p. 67, Fig. 61: Albrecht Dürer, Holy Family in Egypt, ca. 1502, woodcut from the Life of the Virgin series:
Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts, Katz, Oxford, 2001, p. 71, Fig. 66 & 150: Pierre Hubert Subleyras, Pope Benedict XIV Presents St. Catherine dei Ricci to the Virgin, 1745, ink, wash, and graphite with incising:
Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts, Katz, Oxford, 2001, pp. 196-197, Fig. 134: Lavinia Fontana, Holy Family with Saints Margaret and Francis, 1578, oil on canvas, Postar Collection:
http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # AJ001572, Detail Showing Putto with Beehive from Madonna and St. Bernard by Matej Vaclav Jackel, Christian art:
http://pro.corbis.com/, Search # EL004585, Detail of the Virgin Mary from High Altar of St. Anthony by Donatello, Christian art:
http://catholique-lehavre.cef.fr/1_actualite_informations/1_4_infos_com/decembre2004dossier.htm:
http://www.mickeycox.com/murillo.shtml, Murillo's "The Assumption of the Virgin", circa 1670:
http://www.mickeycox.com/murillo2.shtml, Murillo's "The Holy Family", before 1660:
