• the three drunken Wierix brothers of Antwerp influenced Ethiopian iconography?
• the portraiture of Elizabeth I (pictured) contains complex iconography of empire and virginity that conveyed to Elizabethans the majesty and significance of the Virgin Queen?
• the Monza ampullae are metal pilgrimage souvenirs from the Holy Land, dating to circa AD 600, and important in art history for their iconography?

Facts on topics related to Iconography

Nativity of Jesus in art

• the only elements of the Nativity of Jesus in art (example pictured) to span the whole history of its depiction are the baby, the ox and the ass?

Depiction of Jesus

• the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than 170 images of Jesus, showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed?

Gothic art

• the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury?

Art history

• William Larkin was identified as the Jacobean era portraitist formerly known as "The Curtain Master" by art historian Roy Strong?
• American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet on library planning called "Laboratory-Library"?
• an art historian claimed The Fortune Teller (pictured), an oil painting by Georges de La Tour, is actually a forgery?
• the Monza ampullae are metal pilgrimage souvenirs from the Holy Land, dating to circa AD 600, and important in art history for their iconography?

Portrait painting

• Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice, who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?
• Jan de Baen was a popular portrait painter during the Dutch Golden Age?
• six children of the British portraitist and marine painter Samuel Drummond also became artists?
• the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?

Saint Joseph

• Josephology is a modern theological study of Saint Joseph (pictured) and one of the most recent theological disciplines?
• it has been suggested that the shepherds in Mantegna's The Adoration of the Shepherds (pictured) are facing Joseph rather than Jesus?

Mary (mother of Jesus)

• Anne Juliana Gonzaga became a Servant of Mary following the death of her husband, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in 1595, after receiving a vision of the Madonna, to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?
• legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
• the Moscow Kremlin's Church of the Deposition (pictured) is named after a Byzantine tradition that the robe of the Virgin Mary was taken to Constantinople?
• the Bandra Fair in Mumbai, India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea?
• the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden?
• the Monument of the Holy Mother of God (pictured) in Haskovo, southeastern Bulgaria, is the tallest statue of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in the world?
• the citizens of Morella, Spain, hold a sexennial nine-day celebration to commemorate their deliverance from the plague by the Virgin of Vallivana?