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Title: The Cult of the Virgin: Offerings, Ornaments, and Festivals by Marie-France Boyer ISBN: 0-500-01988-6 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beatissima!
Comment: Yes, the text is forgettable, but that isn't why you'd want this book anyway. Forget the Publishers' Weekly review, too; its pseudo-intellectualism merely reveals the critic's ignorance. Black Virgins antedate the 16th century slave trade by centuries, e. g., Notre Dame de Rocamadour. (Not that black Africans weren't enslaved before the 16th century, but the attempt to draw a connection is anachronistic.) The important thing is: the pictures are fabulous! For more enthralling Spanish Madonnas, see Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain.
I'm wondering if readers from the Netherlands or Beligium can recommend any publications on their fabric-robed Madonnas (Antwerp, Maastricht, etc.)?
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome
Comment: Normally I am not really much into reviewing, but seeing this absolutely gorgeous and hearthwarming work being used as cheap tourist promotion to lure people into a bed and breakfast establishment hurts me enough as to make an exception. This is the ultimate work for people who are devote to the virgin. Maria devotion is a spiritual matter, speaking right to the heart in stead of the mind. That is exactly what this book targets: the heart. Although the actual level of information on the Maria cult is general and concise, the frequent and beautiful illustrations speak right to the senses, generating a 'feeling' of the Maria cult instead of an intellectual 'understanding' of it. It is sensational in the truest sense of the word. Therefore I would recommend this book to anyone unfamiliar with the subject but wanting to experience some of its awe, or 'experienced' Maria devoters who can rejoice in the beauty of devotional expression to Maria elsewhere in the world. As a book of reference this work is less suitable in my opinion as the factual data is limited (a bibliography or suggestions for further reading is even missing for instance).
Rating: 4
Summary: There is no other book like this
Comment: Marie-France Boyer is a very eclectic writer. She can tell you much about Marie-Antoinette exquisite taste in Versailles. She knows better than anybody else the cafés of Paris and "really rural" farm-houses in hidden villages. She writes these books in a cabin she decorated in her Ménilmontant garden (a "village" inside Paris). Her book about virgin cult is not the one I prefer. However you will always be pleased to find there the same attention to esthaetics and practical advice. Wether you think of going to Europe for a pilgrimage or just like the naive imagery around Mary you will want to buy this book. It is also a perfect gift for a catholic mother. If you come and visit us in Nantes, we will bring you to some pilgrimages sanctuaries such as Sainte-Anne d'Auray, Mont-Saint-Michel, Notre-Dame de Callot (a chapel on a tiny island in front of Carantec - Britanny). You will discover there (if they were not yet stolen this winter) ex-voto (gifts made by sailors and sailors wives to Mary after tempests).
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Title: Mary: Images of the Holy Mother by Jacqueline Orsini ISBN: 0811828506 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Roses, Fountains, and Gold: The Virgin Mary in History, Art, and Apparition by John Martin ISBN: 0898706807 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Mary: Art, Culture, and Religion Through the Ages by Herbert Haag, Caroline Ebertshauser, Joe H. Kirchberger, Dorothee Solle, Peter Heinegg ISBN: 0824517601 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan ISBN: 0300076614 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts by Melissa R. Katz, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Robert Anthony Orsi ISBN: 0195145585 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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