Mary, Mother of God

Barbara Haeger, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, 1983), Associate Professor, Emerita, The Ohio State University. Her numerous articles and essays on Netherlandish art and religion include “Rubens’s Rockox Triptych: Sight Meditation, and the Justification of Images", Nederlands Kunsthistorish Jaarboek 2006.Elliott D. Wise, Ph.D. (Emory University, 2016), Associate Professor of Art History, Brigham Young University. His research focuses on late medieval and early-modern devotional art, especially questions of liturgy, Eucharistic and Marian piety, and mysticism. James Clifton, Ph.D. (Princeton University, 1987), Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (director) and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (curator, Renaissance and Baroque painting). He has curated numerous exhibitions and published extensively on early-modern European art, especially concerning paintings, prints, and cabinets of curiosity.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1 Our Lady of Grace: Holy Wars and Artisanal CompetitionsElliott D. Wise2 Marian Devotions from a Printer’s PerspectiveThe Rosary, the Seven Sorrows, and Gerard Leeu (d. 1492)Anna Dlabačová3 “Lectulus noster floridus”: The Flower-Strewn Bed and the Virgin’s WombJames Clifton4 Matters of the Flesh: Michelangelo’s MadonnasKim Butler Wingfield5 Revisiting the Annunciation in the Quattrocento: Wind, Kairos, SnailBarbara Baert6 Duplex Intercessio: The Centrality of the Virgin in Giovanni Battista Gaulli’s Dome Fresco in the GesùSteven F. Ostrow7 Van Dyck’s Lamentation for the Church of the Recollects in Antwerp: Making Visible the Virgin Mary as Co-redemptrixBarbara Haeger8 Navigating Theological Differences: Rembrandt and the Grieving Mother of ChristShelley Perlove9 Gemma Mexicanus: Our Lady of Tepepan in New SpainCristina Cruz González10 Picturing the Mughal Madonna: The Virgin Mary as a Symbol of Legitimacy and Royal Authority in Jahangir’s ArchitectureMehreen Chida-RazviIndex Nominum