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Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled
Divine Mirrors is a thematic installation of works from the collection culled from a spring 2000 exhibition of the same name. It presents twenty paintings and sculptures featuring the Virgin Mary as a representative of the ideal woman. Devotional art from the Middle Ages and Renaissance are set alongside modern works to explore the complex relationship between sacred imagery and secular identity in the art of the Madonna.

 
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Created: January 14, 2003
Last Modified: January 9, 2009
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above: Workshop of Giorgio Vasari, Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis (detail), after 1544. Oil on wood panel, 39 ½ x 30 ½ in. Museum purchase in honor of Nancy Angell Streeter (Class of 1950), 1974.10.
 above: Dabney Hailey, Associate Curator of Collections, viewing Divine Mirrors with a group of students. above: Lavinia Fontana, Holy Family with Saints Margaret and Francis (detail), 1578. Oil on canvas, 50 x 41 in. Gift of William and Selma Postar, 2001.104.