Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each visual feature by which late Marian subject it identifies.
Groups: Immaculate Conception · Assumption · Coronation of the Virgin
- Carried by angels
- Enthroned beside her Son
- Sun-clothed, moon at feet
- Empty tomb, apostles gaze
- Twelve-star crown
- Crowned by Trinity/Christ
Hints
- Two of the three show her rising or already risen.
- The sun, moon and stars come from Revelation 12.
Show the answer
Immaculate Conception: Sun-clothed, moon at feet, Twelve-star crown
Assumption: Carried by angels, Empty tomb, apostles gaze
Coronation of the Virgin: Crowned by Trinity/Christ, Enthroned beside her Son
Why
These three are confused more often than any other group in Marian iconography, and the visual features separate them cleanly. The Immaculate Conception concerns her own conception and takes its imagery from Revelation; the Assumption is her bodily taking-up, usually with the apostles at an empty tomb; the Coronation is what follows it.
Practise Judeo-Christian Sources II: Programmes and the Life of the Virgin
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