Posts tagged with baroque.
All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. - Acts 1:14
Juan Bautista Maíno
Pentecost (1615-20)
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
The main altar in the pilgrimage church of Maria Kirchental near Salzburg, Austria.
Madonna di Tirano
A shrine depicting the apparition of Mary in Tirano, Italy.
According to tradition, Mary appeared to a man called Mario Omodei in the early hours of the morning on 29 September 1504. She promised an end to the plague if a shrine would be built in her honour on the site of her apparition. The man made a vow to Mary to build a shrine and the plague soon ended.
Ecce Mater tua
A Flemish baroque engraving of a young Jesus pointing towards a portrait of Mary. The Latin text below is from John 19:27: Behold your mother.
A ceiling painting of the miraculous transportation of the image of Our Lady of Good Counsel in the pilgrimage church of Maria vom Guten Rat in Boeckstein, Austria.
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A painting of the Holy Family and St Anthony the Abbot in the parish church of Bagno, Italy.
Madonna della Porta
The high altar in the basilica of Our Lady of the Gate in Guastalla, Italy.
S. Maria dicta de Bono Consilio
An engraving of the miraculous image of Mary in the Jesuit church in Madrid, venerated as ‘speaker of good counsel’.
Gnadenbild Maria Treu
The miraculous image of Mary venerated in the church of Maria Treu in Vienna, Austria.
It is the work of a local painter, who was struck by the plague in 1713. He and his wife vowed to travel to Rome if they would be healed. Though his wife died, the painter survived and embarked on his pilgrimage. During his stay in Rome he painted this copy of a Madonna, which he donated to the church upon his return to Vienna. It soon became an object of fervent devotion.
A baroque engraving of the image of Nuestra Señora de la Antigua in the cathedral of Seville, Spain.
The baroque retablo of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the cathedral of Tepotzotlan, Mexico.
