Madonnas of the Old Masters

 

November 20, 2010 - June 2011

For many early Christians, the mother of Jesus was not an object of worship or invocation. Artists of that time depicted Mary simply as one of several figures in scenes of the Nativity or adoration of Magi. Beginning in the fourth century, however, veneration of the Madonna became a further expression of belief in her son’s divinity. By the 1500s, the image of Mary and her child was the subject of all forms of creative works throughout Christendom.

For Carol Pierson, the intimacy shared between mother and child was deeply meaningful; and so, the Madonna and Child relationship was especially profound. Her collection of Madonna’s capture the tenderness she so admired. The figures are all three-dimensional interpretations faithfully modeled after paintings by some of the most renowned Old Masters.