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Rostros de Maria: the Virgin as Archetype and Inspiration - San Antonio Museum of Art, until Feb. 20
The San Antonio Museum of Art currently hosts an exhibition about Mary. It was organised to complement their exhibition about Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.
Curator Marion Oettinger expains: “I said, ‘What I’d like to do is have lots of images of the Virgin and perhaps treat her as kind of a continuation of the archetypal feminine and show how we have such a broad variation on the theme of the mother of Christ’”.
The exhibition focuses on many local images of Mary from Spain and Latin America. It highlights how people and nations all over the world have made Mary an inherent part of their faith, culture and traditions.
Mary sorrowing, Mother of all Christians, pray for the poor souls in purgatory.
An American devotional image from 1937 of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Mother of Perpetual Help, we place our trust in Thee
An American devotional image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, printed during the Second World War to call on Mary’s protection of servicemen sent abroad.
A vintage postcard of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.
Mary is the patroness of the United States under the title Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.
A vintage postcard of the statue of Mary in the Dickeysville Grotto in Wisconsin, a submission by mavrodaphne.
The chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(Source: Flickr / timothygerdes)
The statue of Our Lady of the Airways in the Catholic chapel of Boston Logan airport, Massachusetts.
An American devotional print of the Sacred Heart of Mary, also referred to as the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
(Source: loc.gov)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help in St. Patrick’s church, the oldest Catholic parish in Washington D.C.
(Source: Flickr / maulleigh)
The shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the church of the Holy Redeemer in Detroit, Michigan.
