C l a s s i c a l

B a r o q u e

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The contrasting themes and traditions in Classical and Baroque Sculpture

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Literature

Significance to (black Madonna) art/literature

-"Great Goddess" worshipped in matriarchal era in human pre-history

-Universal figure

-Black Madonna another manifestation of mother archetype like the Great Goddess of the ancient world

-Fertility of soil and Mother Earth, Christian icon?

-African portraiture created that drew inspiration from the works, and incorporated not only dark complexion but African ancestry into the presentation of the Virgin Mary.

-Black Madonna as the antithesis of the ‘white, immaculate’.

-Contemporary reimaginings with political and racial significance eg Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees", Pininterests.