Iconography of The Birth of the Virgin Mary on the Basis of a Homily of St. John Damascene
As a consequence of the fact that the New Testament mentions few episodes and very few details of the real life of the Virgin Mary, among the Eastern Christian communities several apocryphal legends, that tried to supply this hermetic silence around the birth, infancy, youth, adulthood and death of...
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Eikón Imago |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/EIKO/article/view/73494 |