The Divine Shepherdess and the Old Testament heroines

Authors

  • Luiz Alberto Ribeiro Freire

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/1981-7207.16.31

Keywords:

Divine Shepherdess, Quadrature, Painting, Old Testament, Heroines

Abstract

The Church of Our Lady Divine Shepherdess is located in Divina Pastora, Sergipe, Brazil. This Shrine shows a specific iconographic program that is related to Virgin Mary as a Shepherdess. It is developed in four ceilings of the church such as presbytery, nave, narthex and sacristy. In the nave ceiling, it is organized taking into account the ancestry, memories, gender and sacred history that are seen as four important female personalities from Old Testament.

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Published

2016-08-31

Issue

No. 24 (2016)

Section

Dossiê

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