Colors Associated With The Virgin Mary

Mediaeval Italian Painting of The Virgin Mary and Christ Child

The Color Blue - symbolizes purity; The Virgin Mary; Virgin and Child; The Immaculate Conception

The Color Gold used as a background color or in the halo symbolizes purity, royalty and glory of life after death.

Candor Illaesus 'Unadulterated Whiteness' emblem of the Incarnation, this symbol pays tribute to the purity and sinlessness of the Blessed Virgin.

The Color White - is a sign of innocence; Birth, Youth, Betrothal and Marriage; The Virgin Mary; Virgin and Child; The Immaculate Conception, The Holy Family

Pink - symbolizes eternal innocence; The Virgin Mary; Virgin and Child; The Immaculate Conception

Symbolism in Art

The Virgin Mary in Art History

Early Sienese painters were the first to endow Mary with mysticism and a dreamy sentimentality. The Virgin Mary is frequently shown holding an open book, symbolic of her submission to Gods Holy Law. Sienese Madonna's are the most mystical and beguiling in the history of art.In Botticelli's The Madonna and Child with an Angel, 1468 (housed in Spedale degli Innocenti of Florence). The Madonna looks thoughtfully upon the crown of thorns and the nails, which the Christ-child innocently, unsuspectingly holds, a curly haired angel offers her grapes and ears of wheat, the symbol of sacrifice. In the place of the fresh worldliness of Fra, Fillippo, Botticell's works reveal the presence of a mystic and transcendental, a solemn and sacramental element. While the realists in their Madonna's portray the joys of motherhood, Botticelli's know no joy whatever. Mary appears gloomy and lost in thought, as if, even when she presses the Christ-child to her bosom, a foreboding of coming suffering casts its shadow over her soul. Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting, Henry and Co., London, 1896

According to the Holy Church "All the signs in the liturgical celebrations are related to Christ: as are sacred images of the holy Mother of God and of the saints as well. They truly signify Christ, who is glorified in them. They make manifest the "cloud of witnesses"29 who continue to participate in the salvation of the world and to whom we are united, above all in sacramental celebrations. Through their icons, it is man "in the image of God," finally transfigured "into his likeness,"30 who is revealed to our faith. So too are the angels, who also are recapitulated in Christ"