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Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849)

https://www.edwardandezra.com/gallery... Rossetti's first completed oil painting depicts an adolescent Mary learning to embroider under the mentorship of Saint Anne. The model for her embroidery is a lily with three flowers which stands on a pile of books. A young angel is next to the flower while Mary's father, Saint Joachim, is pruning a grapevine—the True Vine of Christ—just outside the room. Rossetti uses traditional Christian symbols throughout the painting all suggestive of a church altar. On the spines of the symbolically colored books are inscribed, reading from bottom to top, the names of three of four cardinal virtues (fortitudo, temperantia, prudentia) and the three theological virtues (spes, fides, caritas). ln the foreground of the painting are a seven-leaved palm and a seven thorned briar, bound together by a scroll inscribed with the legend “Tot dolores tot gaudia” This detail alludes to the seven sorrows and seven joys of Mary. Behind the Virgin is a miniature church organ, carved with the initial M, and the legend "O sis Laus deo" (may you be for the praise of God). On the ledge dividing the inside from the outside of the room stand an oil lamp, a vase with a flower, a crimson cloak, and a trellis in the shape of a cross. The trellis is covered with ivy- an allusion to the Biblical Tree of Jesse, which joins Mary to the genealogical line of King David.  The lilies indicate purity, the dove signifies the Holy Spirit, and the red cloak alludes to the cloak of Christ. The choice of embroidery is unique to Rossetti’s work. All of the significant prior paintings of the subject depict the Virgin learning to read at the knee of Saint Anne. Rossetti's swerve from tradition is supported by antique sources on the life of Mary. While there is no reference to reading in any of the early narratives of Mary's childhood, there are several accounts of her textile work. According to the most important early Christian source for details from Mary's childhood, the Gospel of James, written around the second century. In this apocrypha Mary was chosen from among seven virgins to spin thread for the temple veil and is taking a break from this textile work when the angel Gabriel appears to her. The Golden Legend—a widely read medieval collection of saint's lives—reports that apart from prayer Mary spent the third to the ninth hours of her day at the temple weaving. The painting arose out of the early days of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and was from the start a criterion in the development of the Pre-Raphaelite theory. The Brotherhood formed when Rossetti was beginning his work on the painting in the late 1840s, and the first issue of The Germ was printed in January 1850, just months after this work was exhibited. The painting itself is said to have been under the tutelage of Holman Hunt and Ford Madox Brown. Rossetti signed the painting with his own name and with the mysterious "PRB" initials. This work was a highly personal painting for Rossetti since the Virgin Mary and St. Anne were modeled after Rossetti's own mother and sister. Engraved on the frame and printed in the Hyde Park catalogue where it was exhibited, Rossetti wrote two sonnets to explain the painting's symbolism: This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect,      God's Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she     Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee. Unto God's will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect,      And supreme patience. From her mother's knee      Faithful and hopeful; wise in charity; Strong in grave peace; in pity circumspect. So held she through her girlhood; as it were      An angel-watered lily, that near God                Grows and is quiet. Till, one dawn at home, She woke in her white bed, and had no fear      At all, — yet wept till sunshine, and felt awed;                Because the fulness of the time was come. These are the symbols. On that cloth of red      I' the centre is the Tripoint: perfect each,      Except the centre of its points,to teach That Christ is not yet born. The books — whose head Is golden Charity, as Paul hath said —      Those virtues are wherein the soul is rich;      Therefore on them the lily standeth, which Is innocence, being interpreted. The seven-thorn'd brier and palm seven-leaved      Are here great sorrow and her great reward           Until the end be full, the Holy One Abides without. She soon shall have achieved      Her perfect purity: yea, God the Lord           Shall soon vouchsafe His Son to be her Son.