Devotion, Gold, and the Virgin: Visualizing Mary in Three Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Panels in the National Gallery of Denmark

Marina Vidas

doi:10.4324/9781003179054

Devotion, Gold, and the Virgin: Visualizing Mary in Three Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Panels in the National Gallery of Denmark

Marina Vidas

SMK National Gallery of Denmark

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Abstract

The essay is concerned with three Tuscan trecento paintings, which depict the Virgin with her Child against a gold background and are in the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark. All three works were once central parts of multi-paneled altarpieces. The essay highlights how Mary is represented, the visual traditions upon which these paintings draw, the possible significances of and the interplay between narrative elements and colors, especially gold, and how the images affected their viewers and prompted devotion. An exploration of these pictorial and devotional considerations offers new insights into the meanings and functions of the three paintings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages : Image and Performance
Editors	Gerhard Jaritz, Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky
Number of pages	13
Place of Publication	New York and London
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	2022
Edition	1
Pages	52-64
Chapter	3
ISBN (Print)	9781032015545
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003179054
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179054
Publication status	Published - 2022

Series	Studies in Medieval History and Culture

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Vidas, M 2022, Devotion, Gold, and the Virgin: Visualizing Mary in Three Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Panels in the National Gallery of Denmark. in G Jaritz & A-B Znorovszky (eds), Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance. 1 edn, Routledge, New York and London, Studies in Medieval History and Culture, pp. 52-64 . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179054

Devotion, Gold, and the Virgin: Visualizing Mary in Three Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Panels in the National Gallery of Denmark. / Vidas, Marina.
Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance. ed. / Gerhard Jaritz; Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky. 1. ed. New York and London: Routledge, 2022. p. 52-64 (Studies in Medieval History and Culture).

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Vidas, Marina "Devotion, Gold, and the Virgin: Visualizing Mary in Three Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Panels in the National Gallery of Denmark". and Jaritz, Gerhard Znorovszky, Andrea-Bianka (ed.). Marian Devotion in the Late Middle Ages: Image and Performance. 1 ed., Chapter 3, New York and London: Routledge. (Studies in Medieval History and Culture). 2022, 52-64 . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179054