Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Stokes was considered one of the leading women artists in Victorian England.
when i studied European art history, these Catholic portraits of mary and Jesus comprised half of the curriculum. although I’m not religious, I’ve come to appreciate the many hundreds(?) of renditions in their own unique styles. I’ve seen one in person at a museum that was worth millions because of it’s history and contribution to the growth of human art. unfortunately, the reason we see a lot of these paintings is also because of Christian colonialism that erased other religious artwork from history
Can’t help but agree. A lot of renaissance art is either religious, food, a rich prick showing of his or her stuff, or if you’re lucky some Greek mythology. Only later do we get more variety.
I’m a Christian but not a huge fan of those standard subjects (unless the style is exceptional or novel). And indeed the displacement of original cultures and their art by empire is disappointingly widespread. If you ever get the chance to see the Florentine codex it records (including in native language Nahuatl) the tradition and history of the Aztecs, the author was a Franciscan friar but he was keen to show what came before Catholicism in South America and spent time taking first hand accounts from Mexica people.