Picture This: Velázquez' Christ with Martha and Mary

How do we interpret paintings which concern biblical texts? In a recent publication, the artist Jane Boyd and biblical critic Philip Esler offer a fresh set of answers to this question. Focusing on one painting by Diego Velázquez. Jane Boyd elaborates upon the critical context of this artist's...

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Main Author: Boyd, Jane (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2006
In: The expository times
Year: 2006, Volume: 118, Issue: 2, Pages: 70-77
Further subjects:B BOYD, Jane
B Martha and Mary
B Social Sciences
B Beuckelaer
B Spatial divisions
B Velázquez
B Mirror
B ESLER, Philip
B VELAZQUEZ, Diego, 1599-1660
B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Painting
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Summary:How do we interpret paintings which concern biblical texts? In a recent publication, the artist Jane Boyd and biblical critic Philip Esler offer a fresh set of answers to this question. Focusing on one painting by Diego Velázquez. Jane Boyd elaborates upon the critical context of this artist's environment and how it effected a certain conceptual development which in the context of today's viewer also provokes the question, 'Where is the mirror?'
ISSN:1745-5308
Contains:Enthalten in: The expository times
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0014524606070862