Wednesday, August 22, 2018

THE CHURCH COULD NOT USE PAGAN DECOR...


BUT IT COULD GIVE THE HUMBLE THE BODIES OF GODS  

Take 11th-and 16th-century views of the Nativity:  

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The most famous use of allegory:
Rubens' celebration of queen Marie de Medici
in 24 life-size paintings for her palace,
 now at the Louvre.

The first modern biography 
uses allegory and mythology to tell her story.

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