{"id":13560,"date":"2017-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/granda.com\/el-reto-de-tallar-el-rostro-de-maria-the-heights-school-en-potomac-maryland\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:13:42","slug":"the-challenge-of-carving-the-face-of-maria-the-heights-school-in-potomac-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/el-reto-de-tallar-el-rostro-de-maria-the-heights-school-en-potomac-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenge of carving Mary's face (The Heights School, Potomac, Maryland)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christian custom of honoring the Virgin Mary during the month of May is well known, but few know why this month was chosen to honor the Mother of God.<\/p>\n

In the Ancient Greece<\/strong> the month of May, which brought good weather and spring, was dedicated to Artemis, goddess of fertility. This tradition was passed on to the Roman culture<\/strong> as the month dedicated to Flora, goddess of vegetation.<\/p>\n

During the Middle Ages<\/strong> began to spread among Christianity and in Spain a popular devotion to the Virgin Mary was born in this month, which was also called \"month of flowers<\/strong>\"The symbolism of this symbolism with the peak of spring, a time when nature is at its most fruitful and beautiful<\/strong>. In the XVII century<\/strong> the idea of a month dedicated specifically to the Virgin Mary was already widespread and in the XIX century<\/strong> this custom has been extended to the present day. Today, certain Marian customs such as pilgrimages and pilgrimages to Marian sanctuaries have become widespread.<\/p>\n

During the month of May it is usual to find in our workshops works dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Today we want to show this sculptural group<\/strong> realized for the oratory of T<\/strong>he Heights School in Potomac, Maryland,<\/strong> representing the Virgin of the beautiful love (Mater pulchrae dilectionis) with the adolescent Child Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here we show you images of each stage of the creative process, starting with one of the concept sketches and ending with a photo of the finished work. The image was first modeled in clay, a material that allows the artist to work and review all the details that later will be carved by hand in wood.<\/p>\n

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The creative process starts, as always, from a conceptual sketch. This is the reference taken by our artists, who then work on the chosen materials, according to the technique required.<\/p>\n

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The carving reflects the scene of an adolescent Christ offering a rose to his mother. The mother is looking at her son.<\/p>\n

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The final result, a polychrome wood carving that tries to transmit the sweetness of a mother's face with the utmost naturalness.<\/p>\n

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Es conocida la costumbre cristiana de honrar a la Virgen Mar\u00eda durante el mes de mayo, pero pocos saben por qu\u00e9 fue elegido este mes para honrar a la Madre de Dios. En la Grecia Antigua el mes de mayo, que tra\u00eda el buen tiempo y la primavera, era dedicado a Artemisa, diosa de la fecundidad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4416,"featured_media":13562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"lista_post":[],"class_list":["post-13560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-proyectos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17294,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions\/17294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"lista_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lista_post?post=13560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}