Illuminating the Dura-Europos Baptistery: Comparanda for the Female FiguresJournal of Early Christian StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/AP7JSAF8/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MichaelPeppardIlluminating the Dura-Europos Baptistery: Comparanda for the Female Figureshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/AP7JSAF8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/AP7JSAF8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/AP7JSAF8Journal of Early Christian Studies20:42012543-574This essay reconsiders the identifications and interpretations of two of the paintings from the Dura-Europos baptistery: a woman at a well on the southern wall and the procession of women on the eastern and northern walls. Previously unheralded artistic and textual comparanda provide support for alternative identifications of the baptistery's female figures. This essay offers new reasons why the woman at a well could be interpreted as the Virgin Mary, and the procession of women could be interpreted as the wise and foolish virgins of Jesus' parable. In the end, though, it will provide rationales for polysemic interpretations of these figures.
Peppard, Michael. “Illuminating the Dura-Europos Baptistery: Comparanda for the Female Figures.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 20:4 (2012): 543–74.
Michael Peppard, Illuminating the Dura-Europos Baptistery: Comparanda for the Female Figures,Journal of Early Christian Studies 20:4 (2012): 543–74.Dura EuroposI-III CEIII CEMaryarchaeologyartbaptisteryfrescoesiconographywomen