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<i>Hortus Conclusus</i>—A Mariological Metaphor in Some Renaissance Paintings of the Annunciation in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Hymns
Published 2022-12-01“…First, we will analyze an extensive series of fragments of liturgical hymns that repeatedly praise Mary through this biblical metaphor. In the second part, we will examine some artistic representations of the Annunciation that, in the Italian Renaissance, depict a closed garden in the scene. …”
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Hortus Conclusus: A Mariological Symbol in Some Quattrocento Annunciations, According to Church Fathers and Medieval Theologians
Published 2024-01-01“…These six paintings present a closed garden as a visual metaphor illustrating the Mariological dogmas unveiled by the Church Fathers and theologians when explaining this biblical metaphor.…”
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The Symbol of Door as Mary in Images of the Annunciation of the 14th-15th Centuries
Published 2021-12-01“…In the second instance, the iconographic analysis of seven images of the Annunciation from the 14th and 15th centuries that include some door in special conditions will allow us to validate the hypothesis that the intellectual authors of these seven paintings introduced that door into them as a visual metaphor capable of illustrating both textual metaphors of porta clausa and ianua coeli. …”
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Haec porta Domini. Exegeses of some Greek Church Fathers on Ezekiel’s porta clausa (5th - 10th centuries)
Published 2020-10-01“…Regardless of their respective formulations, all these Christian thinkers agreed on this unanimous interpretation: this Ezekiel’s porta clausa is a double and complementary metaphor of Christ and Mary, since it is an eloquent dogmatic symbol that means simultaneously the virginal divine maternity of Mary and her perpetual virginity, as well as the supernatural conception and birth of Jesus from the virginal womb of Mary. …”
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Porta clausa es, virgo. Exegeses on Ezekiel’s Porta clausa by some Latin Church Fathers and Theologians between the 6th and the 12th Centuries
Published 2022-12-01“…This considerable corpus of Greek-Eastern and Latin exegeses constitutes a solid centuries-old dogmatic tradition, according to which this Ezekiel's porta clausa is unanimously interpreted by all those Christian authors as a double complementary Mariological and Christological metaphor. …”
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<i>Paradisi porta</i>—An Iconographic Analysis of Mary as a Humanity’s Mediator in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Hymns
Published 2023-02-01“…This article aims to highlight the rich doctrinal meanings underlying the textual and iconic designation of the Virgin Mary as the gate of Heaven, a highly brilliant metaphor used by writers and artists to symbolize her saving mediation before her divine Son on behalf of humankind. …”
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Porta clausa es, virgo. Exegeses on Ezekiel’s Porta clausa by some Latin Church Fathers and Theologians between the 6th and the 12th Centuries
Published 2022-12-01“…This considerable corpus of Greek-Eastern and Latin exegeses constitutes a solid centuries-old dogmatic tradition, according to which this Ezekiel's porta clausa is unanimously interpreted by all those Christian authors as a double complementary Mariological and Christological metaphor. …”
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