The earliest Christian art - the Virgin Mary

Christian Art The main function is to create worship like to take advantage of people's beliefs guide idol, art activities doctrine became propaganda tools. Of course, Christian art but also as a decorative arts, to meet the needs of the visual aesthetic to show and emphasize the sense of mystery church interior space. The majority of believers in this church, like proximity to a surreal paradise into.
Christian art is certainly not just a simple illustration of religious doctrine, it has self-discipline art forms themselves. In the early Christian art, the arts are faced with the majority of believers, their cultural level is not high, so the pursuit of concise and clear, in order to produce spiritual appeal. Thus forming a unique style of medieval art, most of the artistic image becomes surreal symbol mental image, full of unnatural and inhuman divinity.
The earliest works of art on the Virgin Mary, about a century in the early second century. Most of this time is the mother of the Virgin holding the infant-oriented theme. Gothic era glass and sculpture in Western Europe prospered. In churches and monasteries, many works of art using the approach to the performance of Gothic art Christmas supernatural, surreal mystery.
Glass mosaics in the Middle Ages, the Virgin is portrayed as standing on top of a new moon, cage set the image of the goddess of light. This coincided with the image of "Apocalypse Now" as described - a woman clothed with the sun, moon appeared consistent pedal. The rise of this image, and local churches are closely linked, according to the theological point of view, the Virgin is a paradise of his mother, she can overshadowed all the impermanence and transient, as the sun will shine like the moon disperse.
In the "Revelation of the Virgin Mary", the author depicts the Virgin and Child is quite mundane. Notre Dame has a plump body strong, generous rounded face, far away from the eyes above the insignificant, beautiful straight nose, small chin rounded and strong ......
This piece comes from the painting of traditional art techniques, not born in the traditional decorative techniques, it can be said that the late Gothic art.

Revelation of the Virgin Mary