Orsola Maddalena Caccia: “Picturing Mary” as a Renaissance Nun
Posted: December 30, 2014
Category: Orsola Maddalena Caccia
Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea focuses on themes of femininity, motherhood, and ideal women expressed through the image of the Virgin Mary. The lives of women artists whose work is...
![View of a gallery space with blue walls. On the left is a painting of a woman in a dark blue dress in a golden frame. Next to it is a red cloth framed in glass.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Picturing-Mary-Exhibition_07_15999-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Beyond Iconography: Food in The Birth of St. John the Baptist
Posted: December 19, 2014
Category: Orsola Maddalena Caccia
Orsola Maddalena Caccia’s lavishly detailed painting The Birth of St. John the Baptist (1635), currently on view in Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea, features still-life arrangements nestled into the sacred...
![View of a gallery space with blue walls. On the left is a painting of a woman in a dark blue dress in a golden frame. Next to it is a red cloth framed in glass.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Picturing-Mary-Exhibition_07_15999-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-2-700x330.jpg)