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...After enjoying a successful season this year, sophomore foil Emily Katz turned in an impressive showing at the NCAAs, placing 7th and garnering Second Team All-Ivy honors...
Media critic Jon Katz writes a column for the website Slashdot.org His most recent book is Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden and Judith's defeat of the Assyrian army may not have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...
...Katz's show, the artworks serve the text and not the other way around. Some connections she makes are more readily apparent than others. Marc Chagall's hand-colored etching, "Abraham Sacrificing Isaac," is used to describe Mary's obedience and devotion to God through a comparison to Abraham, who was prepared to sacrifice his son in obedience to God's will...
Other connections between the text and the art are more obscure. Most modern-day viewers have difficulty seeing the anti-Semitic overtones that Katz points out in Michel Wohlgemut's drawing of Christ's circumcision, as shown by a look at the puzzled comments left by visitors. Likewise, the fact that Mary's Assumption into heaven is not part of Protestant belief says little about Pedro Gonzalez Berruguete's depiction of her ascent...