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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: 0-19-514558-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent overview
Comment: For me the real beauty of this book was not the illustrated catalogue of images in the Wellesley College collection, it was the excellent essay by Melissa Katz. Robert Orsi's essay was superb as usual, but rather short, and the other essays are so short (2 pages each) as to be almost unmentionable. Katz on the other hand takes her readers on a historical tour of Marian imagery that is also thematically related to the hours of her devotion. In this way, her essay is not only an overview of Marian imagery, but it is also an overview of the history of the Roman Catholic church, an overview of Marian devotional practices, and the social forces in Europe which shaped these two phenomena. My only criticism of her essay, which might be more accurately a criticism of the Wellesley College collection, is that there is very little information on Marian imagery and devotion outside of Europe.

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