Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Divine Mothers, part 2: Miraculous Icons and icon kissing

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For those of you on whose devices is empty space instead of link to you tube video, click here and you will get there   Chant in prais...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Imagery of Ascention of Mary Magdalene

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On this picture, originally from Gdansk today in National Museum in Warsaw  National Museum, Warsaw we see ascension of Mary Magdalene. It ...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Divine Mothers, part 1: breastfeeding Madonna

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Hans Memling, Nursing Madonna Today some people are kind of surprised that so many, specially women, like the idea of Mary Magdalene b...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Grail in Bezlawki part 2: Mary Magdalene patronage and pagans

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The second part of the legend of grail in Bezlawki. How the grail was taken from Britain, by whom, in my previous entry about what happ...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Iconography of Anounciation of Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin

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Robert Campin and apprentice, Annunciation triptych, Merode Altarpiece,  1427-1430 Cloisters, New York This version of Annunciation is r...
Friday, July 5, 2013

The supposed "heresy" of "All men are born equal" part 1

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Polish Medieval coins with inscriptions in Hebrew Yesterday was 4th of July celebrations in US. This time I am moving away from my chro...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Beuatiful Madonnas style in International Gothic and topoi of courtly love

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Today i want to show some Madonnas in style which was a branch of International Gothic . Those depictions of Virgin Mary are called in Beaut...