A very unknown image becomes more famous
It fills me with satisfaction to be able to bring to this Blog the first known representation of the Holy Virgin Mary
First performance in the Art of the Holy Virgin Mary (Second Century)
The depiction is drawing water from a well, and it is that it is seen when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to him, She was with this task
According to the website https://www.primeroscristianos.com/ :
"In the written descriptions of the Annunciation found in biographies of Mary of the 2nd century, Gabriel approaches him when he is drawing water from a well, as shown in the image"
Physically the image is found in a Church of Syria called "domus ecclesiae" in the ancient city of "Dura Europos"
For more details on this image here you have this interesting link:
https://www.primeroscristianos.com/las-9-imagenes-mas-antiguas-la-virgen-maria/
Well, really a Jewel of Art and a Satisfaction to be able to publish this 😀😀
References:
Catechism of the Catholic Church click here
1160 Christian iconography expresses in images the same Gospel message that Scripture communicates by words. Image and word illuminate each other:
We declare that we preserve intact all the written and unwritten traditions of the Church which have been entrusted to us. One of these traditions consists in the production of representational artwork, which accords with the history of the preaching of the Gospel. For it confirms that the incarnation of the Word of God was real and not imaginary, and to our benefit as well, for realities that illustrate each other undoubtedly reflect each other's meaning.28
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