コレクション番号 NGL002218
作品名 無原罪のお孕り
作品名欧文 N-6424-00-000062-A3
作家名 NG6424
所蔵先 ロンドン・ナショナル・ギャラリー
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フィルムNo. The Immaculate Conception
作品No. ディエゴ・ベラスケス
制作年 1618-9
寸法 135 x 101.6 cm
解説 With its companion painting, Saint John on the Island of Patmos, this is one of Vel?zquez's earliest known works. It is also an early example of depictions in Spanish art of the Immaculate Conception, the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was herself conceived without stain of original sin (it does not refer to the conception of Jesus). She appears here as if in a vision, standing on the moon and with a crown of stars. The imagery is based on the New Testament (Revelation 12: 1-4 and 14) in which the author, Saint John the Evangelist, sees a vision in the heavens of a woman who bears a child and is attacked by a dragon. In the companion painting, Saint John on the Island of Patmos, Vel?zquez depicts Saint John looking up at the woman in his vision.Both pictures are first recorded hanging together in a Carmelite convent in Seville. The Carmelites were particularly devoted to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
