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The Anna Selbdritt and the Cult of the Three Maries. An Early Fourteenth-Century Wall Painting in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary, Page 1 of 1
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This study concentrates upon a little-known late medieval wall painting depicting the Holy Kinship. The fresco is located in the parish church in Csaroda, a village in north-eastern Hungary, and was painted in the first decades of the fourteenth century. Scholarship dedicated to the iconography of Saint Anne and the Holy Kinship focuses on the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, because of the late medieval blossoming of devotion towards the Virgin’s mother and Christ’s extended family. Studies of earlier centuries mostly take into account manuscripts. The case of the Holy Kinship in Csaroda proves that the state of research regarding the iconography of Anne and the Holy Kinship has little relevance for explaining images that were produced beyond the confines of upper-class patronage. The ascending cult of Saint Anne and her three daughters in fourteenth-century France offers examples that bear the closest resemblance to the Csaroda fresco. Illustrated manuscripts of John of Venette’s L’Histoire des trois Maries, albeit produced later than the mural in Hungary, provide the closest visual parallels. However, the use and dissemination of manuscripts is different from the function and reception context that can be assigned to a wall painting and my aim is to investigate possible circulation and reuse of this motif in the case of the wall painting in Csaroda.
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