mary & elizabeth
from a cycle of miniatures, possibly originally preceding a psalter, muri (?), first half of the 12th c.
source: Sarnen, Benediktinerkollegium, Cod. membr. 83, fol. 2r
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Käthe Kollwitz, “Maria und Elisabeth,” 1928
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Tender, familial closeness emanates as Mary and Elizabeth quietly embrace. This scene depicts Mary's visitation to her cousin, described in the Gospel of Luke (1:41-45).
Käthe Kollwitz offers a modern, fresh rendering of this traditional subject in a bold woodcut from 1928. Known for highly emotional images and for her use of gesture and facial expression to convey feeling, Kollwitz shows the women in a close embrace. Elizabeth pulls Mary in and seems to whisper or gently kiss her cousin's cheek as she places a hand on Mary's growing belly.
Traditional symbolic details are excluded to bring our focus to the sense of love and togetherness embodied in this moment.
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Art by, Carl Heinrich Bloch, [1834-1890] (Mary and Elizabeth)
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She was dreadfully romantic. She read too many novels and carried her ideal world wherever she went.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Doctor’s Wife (1864)
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