One reason why we love these paintings

Posted on September 16, 2011 by | 2 Comments

 

What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

– Thomas Wentworth Higginson

 

 

Paintings:
Tempi Madonna
Madonna and Child (Small Cowper Madonna) 

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2 Responses to One reason why we love these paintings

  1. Allison Welch | September 17, 2011 at 4:54 am |

    Wow. Thanks for sharing. One little sentence, two images that I can chew on for a very long time. Those beautiful, priceless paintings, but “a shadow.” I’m just renewing my love of Mary, but your post reminds me of how worthy of veneration she is, how special she was to be chosen by God, how brave she was to say “Yes,” and how long we can try to digest (and imitate) the love she exemplified.

  2. Ginny | September 18, 2011 at 1:37 pm |

    Hi Allison,

    So glad you like the quotation. And Amen to everything you say about Mary. It took me a while to get there myself, but now, I look at her and see someone of so much courage and strength … paired, of course, with unconditonal love and tenderness. She’s what I aspire to be!