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Chacun a son gout! But I've seen Russian icons which very closely resembled this one - I would suspect that some iconographers from Russia who were in France after the defeat of Napoleon saw the painting and decided to "iconize" it.
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Not to my taste, perhaps, but the painting does represent
a rather powerful affirmation of the Incarnation. I suspect
that Bouguereau was inspired to this by the iconic tradition.
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Actually, I find the iamge of the Theotokos striking. I am not impressed by the rubenesque Infant.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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