Art History I / Judeo-Christian Sources II: Programmes and the Life of the Virgin
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Complete the account of programmes.

A set of images arranged so that the arrangement itself argues something is a ______. The Last Judgement conventionally occupies the ______ wall. The most frequently represented scene of the Virgin's life is the ______. The doctrine that Mary was conceived without original sin is the ______ Conception.

Word bank: programme · west · Annunciation · Immaculate · apse · Assumption

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  1. The second blank is the wall the congregation faces on leaving.
  2. The last blank is routinely confused with the virgin birth.
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A set of images arranged so that the arrangement itself argues something is a programme. The Last Judgement conventionally occupies the west wall. The most frequently represented scene of the Virgin's life is the Annunciation. The doctrine that Mary was conceived without original sin is the Immaculate Conception.

Why

The last blank is worth fixing firmly: the Immaculate Conception concerns Mary's own conception without original sin, not the virgin birth of Christ. Its iconography comes from Revelation 12 — sun, moon and twelve stars — and is unmistakable once known.

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